1. Click the big button to download and read the briefing sent to all MSPs, April 2012 2.Click the small button to sign the latest petition against subsidies.

Edinburgh was threatened by a giant biomass power station - burning millions of tonnes of imported wood 24/7 to generate electricity (wasting heat) - close to local housing, dangerously polluting and generating increased lorry traffic. Too big! Wrong place! Not green!

Partly due to the strength of community opposition the developers, Forth Energy, withdrew their application, in February 2012.

However, we need to be vigilant in case they come back again with another proposal. Meanwhile Grangemouth, Dundee and Rosyth are still threatened by giant biomass plants. As long as developers can make huge profits out of subsidies, they will be keen to build these incinerators of trees. The current focus of our campaign is to oppose the payment of public subsidies for biomass burning - whether for electricity only, combined heat and power, or co-firing.

This is a new petition started February 2012 against subsidies for large scale biomass importing virgin wood to Scotland. Sign now!
(but check, and don't sign twice)