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Author Archives: Mary Church
Government stalling on Aarhus compliance?
The Scottish Government’s proposals for new rules of court on Protective Expense Orders published last month are as disappointing as they are late. Codification of the rules of court on Protective Expense Orders (PEO) was recommended by Lord Gill’s review … Continue reading
RBS and Climate Week – who dumped who?
Good news in a guest post from Kev Smith at Platform, a group we’ve been working with on our Clean Up RBS campaign. News has reached us that RBS isn’t sponsoring the 2012 Climate Week, due to take place in … Continue reading
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Tagged cleanrbs, climatechange, green economy, green investment bank
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Back to the future to stand up for our environment?
In June this year, Friends of the Earth Scotland became the first Scottish NGO (and the first environmental NGO in the UK) to intervene in a case at the UK Supreme Court. Continue reading
RBS black affronted at AGM tarsands protest
What a beautiful day for an AGM! Just back from RBS HQ at Gogarburn where the bailed out bank was holding its annual general meeting. Friends of the Earth Scotland were joined by activists from a coalition of environment and … Continue reading
Posted in Clean up RBS, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Green economy, Politics & Parliament
Tagged budget, cleanrbs, climatechange, green investment bank, r, renewables, tar sands
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The other offshore tax regime
Guest blog by Greg Muttitt The lobby machine kicked into action following the announcement by George Osbourne of plans to raise £10 billion over the next 5 years from the oil industry. Ex-PLATFORMer Greg Muttitt, author of the forthcoming book … Continue reading
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RBS: Making the Climate Weak…
Guest blog post by Iain Thom, World Development Movement Scotland “Would you let an arms company sponsor National Peace Week? How about the BNP sponsoring International Refugee Day, or Lambert & Butler logos all over a cancer charity fundraising event? … Continue reading
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Unhealthy bank = unhealthy results
Bailed out Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday announced losses of £1.13 billion, and in the same breath awarded themselves £950 million in bonuses. These unhealthy results reflect the unhealthy investment focus of a bank still addicted to fossil fuels. Since … Continue reading
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Tagged budget, cleanrbs, climatechange, green investment bank, renewables, tar sands
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Little sense from Road Sense ruling
While the granting last week of the second ever Protective Expense Order in Scotland is in some ways a welcome step towards properly implementing the Aarhus Convention on Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, the conservative reasoning behind the ruling … Continue reading
Access to wikileaks
The relentless exposing of ‘secrets’ by wikileaks only serves to confirm the view held by many in both the global north and south: that powerful western democracies and business interests continue to bully and manipulate developing countries in order to … Continue reading
