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A Scottish university’s cleantech project could help close 100,000 gas-leaking wells over the next decade by transforming rocks into permanent seals
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Dealing with Climate Change & Justice
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Strange omission for the Green Industrial Strategy to not prioritise transport given it's the largest source of climate emissions. Perhaps if @scotgov took greater care in supporting existing Scottish bus manufacturing capacity, @ADLbus wouldn't be considering severe job cuts.
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https://x.com/TransformScot/status/1834245377098179071
https://www.gov.scot/news/growing-scotlands-net-zero-economy/
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The signal sent by Petroineos’ decision to shut Scotland’s only oil refinery risks putting off private investment crucial to net zero ambitions.
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Romania’s president, Klaus Iohannis, said: “We are again facing the effects of climate change, which are increasingly present on the European continent, with dramatic consequences.”
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There’s something in the air’: UK airport expansion gears up for takeoff
Lobbyists are increasingly confident about expansion plans as concerns for the economy start to deepen
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Miraculously airport expansion can be done whilst meeting net zero targets?! Labour luckily doesn't have any qualms about this as is foremost a party of business in its new guise. SNP probably same as Edinburgh with its one runway but expanded terminals and multi storey car parks is not discouraged.
Meanwhile we will expect GB Energy in Aberdeen to generate more flights until the HQ is located further south as always happens. High speed electric rail north in Scotland not likely till later this century if ever. Normally a net zero operation would have had some public infrastructure advantage but not now. PM likes flying in the Global Britain liveried Airbus 330 on his visits north of London. We live in a world shaped by rich charlatans.
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We lost on Brexit, and now there are borders, and we grieve that. But that is as nothing compared to losing on climate.” Knowles is “not mindlessly optimistic. But if you look at climate change, we’ve got huge fights ahead of us, but we do have all the solutions we need to address climate change. It’s just a battle of political will.”
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The Scottish Government has spent £16 million in less than four years on design and assessment for work on a beleaguered stretch of road.
The Rest and Be Thankful on the A83 in Argyll and Bute has been blighted by landslips in recent years, forcing ministers to explore long and medium-term fixes.
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‘Risk’ analyses largely ignore the dangers of the climate crisis. Unless we wake up to them, they will soon outweigh all others
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/19/russia-china-global-security-climate-breakdown
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Ten Scottish salmon farms reported over 50% mortality in 2023
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People living near a chemicals plant in Lancashire have been told to wash and peel vegetables from their gardens before eating them, while an investigation into potential contamination of soil in the area with a banned toxic chemical gets under way.
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Good blog on how museums can help with active travel and climate justice
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LABOUR’S appointee to a plum government job is linked with a Cayman Islands-based hedge fund which donated £4 million to the party, The National can reveal.
Rachel Kyte has been appointed to the revived UK Government climate envoy role – which when it last existed commanded a salary of at least £130,000.
She is the co-chair of the Quadrature Climate Foundation’s advisory board, which was founded by the same people behind the hedge fund Quadrature Capital.
Quadrature, which holds hundreds of millions of pounds of shares in fossil fuels, private health firms, and arms manufacturers, donated £4m to Labour ahead of the General Election, the investigative news site openDemocracy revealed earlier this month.
The site said its latest filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission from August showed it had hundreds of millions of dollars invested in oil firms including Cenovus, which earlier this year was fined for an Atlantic oil spill.
It also held a $6m in arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin, investments in US private healthcare firms and massive asset management firms such as Blackstone and KKR.
The donation only came to light months after the election because it had been made in a brief window where the election donation reporting rules had not come into force after Rishi Sunak announced the date of the ballot.
It is said to be the sixth-largest donation in British political history.
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He praised Labour for lifting the onshore wind ban but said the Conservatives would be opposing onshore energy infrastructure.
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Coutinho added that it was foolish of Miliband and Labour to focus so much on wind and solar for their plans to decarbonise the grid and said we should wait and try and develop technologies such as nuclear fusion “to sell around the world”.
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we should wait...
... for expensive, unproven tech...
Aye, how's that working out...?
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Fintan Slye, head of the new grid operator Neso, is aware that critics are sceptical about achieving ‘clean power by 2030’. But with tough decisions, he says, it can be done
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Speaking to people in Shetland, we have seen again how a striking feature of the climate transition is the way that exciting new renewable energy projects sit alongside people that are struggling to pay for basic needs, and communities with concerns about the long-term sustainability of local economies.
Substitute Shetland for Scotland. Lerwick managed to negotiate in past to make sure they got benefits from hosting the oil industry. Pretty sure they will again with renewables.
Scotland's energy is often at a carbon intensity of under 10. England and Wales often over 100. There will be a UK prize for this 'achievement' we are told. (K Starmer 'jam tomorrow' of GB Energy and a low carbon UK powered from Scotland / Shetland). Just now local communities hosting giant wind farms get donations for things like community gardens but are stuck with high electricity charges. If each village actually owned a turbine it could produce funds to benefit more.Posted 2 months ago # -
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Labour says carbon capture plan will help UK ‘decarbonise without deindustrialising’
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Asked about critics who say carbon capture is a misstep, and the country should be getting out of the fossil fuel market altogether, he said that in order to head towards net zero, “we need all the technologies at our disposal,” and said the country was heading for “the biggest change in 200 years in the way we run our economy.”
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Just as carbon offsetting is seen as a way to reduce emissions through additionality to business as usual, but is really nothing more than paying to pollute and somehow mopping up those emissions, plus a bit more, somewhere else, with all the inherent risk of assuming non-permanent solutions are in fact permanent in geological terms, reliance or promotion of Magical Future Technology such as CCP is just another form of offsetting, but time-based rather than location-based.
I don't doubt that the future will bring newer technologies, and we have to start work to develop them now, but at the rate we're going, there will never be enough new technological solutions to deal with ever increasing carbon emissions. And capitalism, "sustainable" or otherwise, is [rule 2] making that happen.
Saying that we can carry on as normal now, because Magical Future Technology will rescue us is not just greenwashing, it's total [rule 2], not just because that tech is not guaranteed to arrive on time - or even arrive at all - but because climate change won't and cannot be solved by business as usual until some point at which we suddenly drop to "net" zero emissions. Climate change is an emergency now because all emissions are cumulative, both in the past and in the future.
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