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Say No to Forth Energy’s Four Big Biomass Plans

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 per year in subsidies

• Be so inefficient that they violate 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. All four decisions will be made by Energy Minister Fergus Ewing for the Scottish Government. 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 MSP today and ask him or her to share your concerns with Mr. Ewing and to call on the Scottish Government to reject all four applications.
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