I've been reflecting on a week when our climate and the impact we are having on it has been very much in the news.
So it was with huge relief when I heard from colleagues in Scotland that we had reached a huge milestone in the campaign to stop the development of coal-fired power station at Hunterston on the Clyde. It’s been a campaign that we’ve followed throughout the two years I’ve been contributing to this blog (here’s an earlier post).
The milestone was the unanimous rejection of the proposal by North Ayrshire Council – this adds an important extra dimension to the 21,000 other objections already submitted (a record for a single application in Scotland) – if you have stepped up and added your voice – thank you!
We still have a long way to go though before we have won this one. Scottish Ministers must now hold a public inquiry before finally deciding on the application. It could be 2013 before we finally get a decision from Ministers.
I’ll keep you posted on progress.
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