Non-ScotRail fares up by 4.6% from March 2025. Up to the Scottish Government how much ScotRail fares increase, but I would expect similar.
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I wish I was due a 4.6% pay rise.
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Would be interested to see how Scotrail income has changed post return to peak fares.
Anecdotaly (from the trains I get 2 days a week), passenger numbers are down significantly, but given fares have basically doubled income is probably net up?
They did say fares needed to go up 10% in adition, so waiting with baited breath to see what they do increase by...
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Reeves said it would be the “wrong choice” to increase fuel duty next year, saying she would continue the freeze and maintain the temporary 5p cut for another year. She told MPs she has to “take some very difficult decisions” on tax, and noted to retain the 5p cut and freeze fuel duty again would cost more than £3 billion next year.
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The idea that the state should put £19bn into carbon capture and storage worries true green campaigners, and leaves the rest of us concerned that this will not be an investment that will pay a return. Trying to rescue HS2 as a new link to the north could prove to be costly and difficult, as it has defeated the well-paid management so far to deliver it on time and anywhere near the original large budget.
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Attempts to make vast profits out of ‘natural capital’ will only delay tackling the economic, social and ecological crises that Scotland faces
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New opportunities have emerged as we desperately struggle to forge a coherent response to the climate and biodiversity crises. Now Scotland is learning to live with the opportunities and flaws of ‘natural capital’ markets.
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(Scotsman)
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GB Energy will not have its own headquarters in Aberdeen, The National can reveal.
Labour’s energy “investment vehicle” will instead be based in a building which is shared with oil companies.
It is unclear how much space is available for GB Energy given the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) already occupies space in the building.
A DESNZ spokesperson also declined to say how many GB Energy staff it was planning on hiring, instead saying: “The exact number of roles in Great British Energy will be driven by the organisational structures and priorities.”
The AB1 building on Huntly Street where DESNZ is based is made up of three floors of office space, with the websites of local estate agents confirming other occupants include Shell and Dana Petroleum, both of which extract oil and gas from the North Sea.Posted 1 month ago # -
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Stellantis is one of many manufacturers to have been told that it faces a lengthy delay to connect its onsite renewable energy to the local power grid, with a connection not likely until 2035.
A Vauxhall electric van drives off the end of Ellesmere Port’s production line
Vauxhall owner to make decision on future of UK plants ‘in next few weeks’
Read moreThe delay risks raising the cost of meeting its target to halve its carbon emissions by 2030 and to be net zero globally by 2038. Although it will be able to install solar panels, it will not be able to sell its spare electricity to the power grid without a connection, cutting off a useful stream of revenue that would help to make the investment economic.
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Maybe there will be a new technofix coming soon…
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Planning rules have failed to link new homes to public transport, report finds
A decade of planning policy has achieved nothing, leaving millions of people still dependent on cars, study shows
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Trump’s agenda, analysts have found, risks adding several billion tonnes of extra heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere, further imperiling goals to stave off disastrous global heating that governments are already failing to meet. Michael Mann, a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, said that the US is now a “failed democracy” and that “we now pose a major threat to the planet.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/06/trump-climate-change-environment-threat
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A lovely summer's morning today, apart from the low winter sun.
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How can we build new green infrastructure without wrecking the countryside?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0024p2x
Interesting wide-ranging discussion including aspects of ‘who benefits or is disadvantaged’ and ‘we need more power lines and pylons now’.
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Starmer claims government can reach new carbon target without people's everyday lives being disrupted“
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Cop29: 2024 has been ‘masterclass in climate destruction’, says UN chief – live updates
Keir Starmer and Viktor Orbán among world leaders expected to address the UN climate conference on day two
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Low-carbon tech needs much fewer materials than it used to; this matters for resource extraction in the future
Improvements in material efficiency + recycling = super-circularity.
HANNAH RITCHIE
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https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/low-carbon-tech-needs-much-fewer
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Cheap fix floated for plane vapour's climate damage
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As previously mentioned 'upstream'.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24718920.legal-challenge-rosebank-begins-edinburgh/
Meanwhile, climate activists staged a demonstration outside the Court of Session as the first submission was being heard on Tuesday morning.
Campaigners called for the two projects to be halted, as Philip Evans of Greenpeace UK said: "Earlier this year, the Supreme Court made it crystal clear that the climate impact of emissions from burning fossil fuels must be assessed before any new oil and gas projects can be approved.
"It’s these types of emissions that are causing the climate chaos we’re seeing all over the world.
"But oil companies want to keep drilling for maximum profits whilst ignoring the damage they’re doing.
"That’s why we are taking Shell, Equinor and Ithaca to court to stop them in their tracks."
Tessa Khan, executive director of Uplift, said Rosebank should never have been approved.
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Andrew Wilson the Balerno economist who advised SNP on Sterling always maintained OIl should nit be factored into the economy
But SNP love oil and motors
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@gembo - name a party that doesn't like motors. EVs being the thing now of course ;-)
Obviously the main line to Aberdeen should be electrified. Noticed this work from train other day.
https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/piling-work-to-get-underway-to-electrify-lines-to-fife
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