What Lies Beneath

When students begin ploughing £36,000 into the Edinburgh University coffers next September they will no doubt expect that this money is used in a responsible way. The University’s Socially Responsible Investment policy and its Climate Action Plan certainly suggest that it will. However, students’ money is being used to finance some of the most environmentally destructive projects on earth, as well as runaway climate change, arms manufacturing and human rights abuses.

A Fracking Disgrace

When you hear the words ‘renewable energy’, what images spring to mind? Wind farms, solar panels and tidal energy turbines? What about a power station covering the area of 17 football pitches, with a 100 metre tall chimney that belches out the smoke from millions of tonnes of wood that has been shipped over from Florida? This is what Forth Energy is attempting to build in four locations around Scotland, including in Leith where people live just 200 metres from the proposed site. If the application is successful it will potentially receive billions of pounds in renewable energy subsidies from the Scottish Government.