Alert your MSP to biomass dangers, 4 Nov 2011

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Forth Energy has applied for planning permission for four large biomass power stations in Scotland: in Dundee, Grangemouth, Leith (Edinburgh) and Rosyth.

Although touted as a green energy solution, the reality is that these proposals will:

• exacerbate deforestation 

• increase carbon emissions and thus worsen climate change 

• cause local pollution, putting communities’ health at risk 

• cost the public £300 million in subsidies 

• be so inefficient that they contradict Scottish Government and EU policy on biomass 

Forth Energy’s plans have been opposed by large numbers of local residents, several Scottish NGOs and also by a number of Councillors and MSPs. The Scottish Government is currently considering making large power stations like this ineligible for subsidies due to the level of opposition through a public consultation which will run till 13 January 2012.

However, the ultimate decision on all four power stations will be down to Energy Minister Fergus Ewing. He could decide the Rosyth application any time now, followed by decisions over the Dundee and Grangemouth applications, with the Leith one due in 2012.

Please write to your MSPs today and ask them to share your concerns with Mr. Ewing and to call on the Scottish Government to reject all four applications.