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Nicola Sturgeon urged to tackle ‘scourge’ of plastic drinking straws in FMQs call

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HIGHLAND MSP Kate Forbes will take calls for Scotland to ban plastic drinking straws to the heart of Holyrood later today. Forbes, who sits on the Scottish Parliament’s Environment Committee, will raise the issue during First Minister’s Questions in the chamber. She will ask Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to reveal what action the Scottish Government …

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Environmental groups in Scotland hit out at fossil fuel Phil’s Budget of green gloom

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ENVIRONMENTAL groups have reacted with significant dismay over the Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Budget announcements today. There appeared to be little cheer for the renewables sector, a look again towards extending the North Sea oil industry, with drivers on the road arguably being denied any real incentives to switch to cleaner forms of transport. It was …

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Scottish National Investment Bank: How can it make for a fairer Scotland?

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FIRST Minister Nicola Sturgeon unveiled ambitious plans for a Scottish National Investment Bank in September as a key plank of her programme for government. With it, she turned to trusted industry heads and promised a Just Transition Commission, identifying the potential it has to create real change. But today – as consultation  on the bank’s …

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Scotland bares its teeth as fracking faces even tougher ban from ministers than had been in pipeline

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SCOTLAND is on course to become one of the toughest anti-fracking areas in the world after MSPs voted overwhelmingly to ban it. The historic vote 91 to 28 at Holyrood included even tougher ties than had immediately been proposed in the wave of fierce campaigning. Because the Scottish Government have also vowed to look at …

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Scottish Green Party co-convenor Maggie Chapman says Robert Mugabe reversal good news for human rights

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#SGPConf SCOTTISH Green co-convenor Maggie Chapman said stripping Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe of his role as a goodwill ambassador for the World Health Organisation after just 24-hrs is a victory for human rights. She said controversial appointment – greeted with worldwide derision – had made her “blood boil” before she won the backing of Scottish …

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#SGPConf: Watch Scottish Greens co-convenor Patrick Harvie talk about how party is ‘Leading the change’

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#SGPConf SCOTTISH Greens co-convenor Patrick Harvie told their party conference that they were the movement leading the change in Scottish politics. In an address at Edinburgh Napier University,he listed their achievements in seeing long standing campaigns being turned into reality. He said they had a “real opportunity” to make a difference.

#SGPConf Scottish Greens agree emergency motion backing MSP Mark Ruskell’s call to thwart ‘toxic Tory pen’ on fracking

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#SGPConf THE Scottish Green Party voted overwhelmingly today to back a motion calling on the Holyrood government to make fracking illegal in Scotland by enshrining it into law. In an impassioned speech to the party faithful, Mark Ruskell MSP called on members to back a motion he is putting to the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday …

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#SGPConf: Patrick Harvie says Scottish Greens are ‘leading the change’ to a fairer future

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#SGPConf 2017  THE Scottish Greens are ‘leading the change’ across the country, co-convenor Patrick Harvie will tell delegates at the party’s annual conference in Edinburgh today. He will accuse other parties of ‘playing catch-up’ in proposing policies for a ‘fairer and greener country’. It comes as the Scottish Green Party, who are heading close to …

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‘The greatest responsibility of all that we owe to the next generation is to protect the planet.’ – Nicola Sturgeon

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IN the throes of a conference speech, her section about the environment registered barely 3000 characters. Fewer than 700 words.  They were weighted to the business end of the address, knowing the audience would be warmed up enough to still pay attention but greet them warmly. But in those carefully scripted words, First Minister Nicola …

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