@Laidback - might be a tech issue, as the link works for me. There are no new rail commitments in the Plan, just restatements of things already announced.
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Demand at Scottish airports is expected to rise
It's not a force of nature, it's a product of human choices, mostly formed by cost and availability.
It will only rise if we let it - it's not a fait accompli!
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Highland Scotland's land mismanagement getting a shakedown from Lesley Riddoch.
30 minutes of exactly the kind of programme we need (once upon a time BBC or STV would have made this sort of thing). For every Anders Povlsen with a re-wilding objective there are hundreds of landowners content to keep hillsides bare and lochs undernourished. (Programme explains all)Posted 4 months ago # -
@Laidback, I saw that video the other day, really interesting, and should be a model for other deforrested areas.
Lesley Riddoch also did another video recently about areas in the Highlands being turned over to windfarms, which the owners are essentially being paid to turn off as there is too much energy in the grid and currently no storage solutions (though I have seen battery farms start to appear near the Fife windfarms, so maybe change affoot), but yet they want to put more wind farms up which local comunities are opposed to.
I quite like Lesley Riddoch's, and also Cameron McNeish's videos as you get reminiscence for days past of terrestrial television style presenting/format on the webs.
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There's also 10GW of hydro storage capacity in the pipeline, most of which is in Scotland.
Some of the reason they need to be switched off is because nuclear (Torness) cannot be switched off quickly enough.
Nuclear power *displaces* renewables, not augment them
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Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says
10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/11/leading-scientist-says
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When the air contains around 0.04% CO2, it turns out it's really hard, and really energy intensive, to recapture it...
Much much easier not to emit it in the first place.
Which is why carbon capture from the atmosphere is greenwash BS, used by the fossil fuel industry to delay action
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Whilst there are some notable improvements for cyclists included in the latest plans, the scheme as a whole will create a more dangerous environment for cycling in Midlothian and Edinburgh. It will also further entrench the dominance of car use, making it even more difficult for future generations
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https://bsky.app/profile/blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk/post/3m5ghspjmkk25
(Part of thread on A701)
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They said the channel was unable to cope with the volume of water, leading to the slope above the west coast main line in Cumbria becoming saturated, “initiating the landslip”.
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We have identified point sources of emissions around the world, and we’ve identified those that have come up with high-quality, cost-effective ways to decarbonise. Then we have identified other facilities with the same basic technology, scale, and industry subsector, where the successful strategies that we’ve identified as having worked can be successfully replicated.
In the steel sector, for instance, if the facilities tracked by Climate Trace were converted to electric arc furnaces, about 20.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide could be saved by 2050. That is about half of a year’s current emissions from all sources.
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It is understood that Torness, to the east of Edinburgh, and Hunterston, to the west of Glasgow, would be considered for future large reactors. A source close to the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, said the government wants to generate nuclear power in Scotland, despite the opposition of the ruling Scottish National party.“
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The Scottish Government is facing fresh calls to prioritise a long-awaited rail link between Glasgow Airport and the city centre as part of the proposed Clyde Metro project.
Speaking during General Questions at Holyrood today, Glasgow MSP Pauline McNeill pressed ministers on the economic impact of the continuing absence of a direct airport connection, warning that another bus service “will not cut it”.
There is currently no direct rail link to Glasgow Airport as previous plans to introduce such a service in the last twenty years have been scrapped.
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A purpose-built conference and events facility, the Heat Network Suite is a dedicated area which will be used to help educate people on the benefits of district heat networks.
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Why Is Africa Feeding Us?
The Food Programme Dan Saladino investigates our growing dependence on West Africa for fresh produce. From just two farms in Senegal a large proportion of spring onions, radishes and corn on the cob are arriving. Is that a good thing for us and the Senegalese?
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@chdot - there's some spam untrapping to be done on the Cowgate thread...
ADMIN EDIT
Odd
Spamtrapping is rare and seldom explicable
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World leaders are gathering in Brazil for the latest round of negotiations to slow down runaway climate change, but could COP30 be the last of these increasingly desperate efforts?
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Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/nature-not-blocker-housing-growth-inquiry
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There have recently been reminders of how floods are only going to get more disruptive and dramatic. In mid-October, the insurance giant Aviva published a report titled Building Future Communities 2025, which was full of unsettling facts: among them, that over the past 10 years, one in 13 new homes have been built in the highest-risk flood zones; and that by 2050, the number of properties at risk from flooding could rise by 25% to 8m.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/16/uk-flood-water-wales-cornwall-rescue
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Senior government figures are worried the operator of the Fife Ethylene Plant at Mossmorran may be preparing to sell up or shut down, The Courier can reveal.
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https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/5373456/fife-mossmorran-plant-closure-fears-exxon-mobil
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Can't help but feel that Scotland is being de-industrialised to make union power weaker. (yes the plant is environmentally dubious of course) The main thing about wind turbines is that mere employees can't switch them off. 'Pesky' workers can no longer blockade plants over pay or safety issues. It's the ideal remote control state where everyone is an individual / consumer / in their car / at home.
On Thursday, Starmer announced the site for the UK’s first small modular reactor (SMR) in North Wales. Again it is merely a proposal, which was not accompanied by any financial details.
The reality is there’s a lot of water to flow under the bridge before it comes to fruition, if it ever does. The inconvenient truth for Starmer is that no civil SMRs exist anywhere in the world. They are all just paper designs and are a long way off.
READ MORE: Labour order GB Energy to examine 'potential Scottish nuclear sites'
They would also be more expensive to run than large reactors per kWh – a key parameter. And as the former chair of the US government’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) says, SMRs would produce more chemical and radioactive waste per kW than large reactors.
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25624042.scotland-pay-billions-nuclear-renewables-exist/
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