Simon has been writing over at his blog about the fact that we are now one year on from the election of the SNP (minority) government, and what the have and have not achieved.
I must say, I have to disagree with some of his priorities…
Scrapping the Edinburgh Airport Rail Link (EARL)—this was a great idea. [...]
Posted on Friday 2nd May 2008 in Engineering, Politics tagged A9, Engineering, Forth Bridge, Highland, Politics, Railway, with 3 comments.
It’s an unusual position to be in, but tomorrow I will be protesting with the Scottish Government against the replacement of the UK’s nuclear arsenal—Trident—our very own WMD.
I don’t support every policy of the SNP, but I admire Alex Salmond for standing up and voicing the opinion of the Scottish People—that we do not want [...]
Posted on Friday 2nd November 2007 in Politics tagged cnd, Edinburgh, government, nuclear, Politics, Scotland, WMD, world_politics, with no comments.
George Monbiot discusses in his article “Giving Up On Two Degrees” how the governments of the western world are manipulating the figures, so that they appear to be meeting their greenhouse gas emission targets. But not that they are trying to meet the wrong targets.
For those of us who live in this country, this is [...]
Posted on Wednesday 2nd May 2007 in Politics tagged climate change, environmental, Politics, Scottish, with no comments.
Finally what might be some good news on the “Climate Change” front – that Big businesses’ are having a climate meeting – and possibly working towards trying to “out-green” each other. Maybe competition isn’t such a bad thing after all…
George Monbiot has posted an article discussing this, interesting reading.
Posted on Thursday 11th January 2007 in Politics, Science tagged climate change, news, UK, with no comments.
Coal Mining Causing Earthquakes
The most damaging earthquake in Australia’s history was caused by humans, new research says. The magnitude-5.6 quake that struck Newcastle, in New South Wales, on December 28, 1989, killed 13 people, injured 160, and caused 3.5 billion U.S. dollars worth of damage. [National Geographic]
The article goes on to talk about carbon sequestration [...]
Posted on Sunday 7th January 2007 in Engineering, Politics, Science tagged climate change, construction, Engineering, environmental, future, landfill, natural-disaster, news, Politics, recycling, UK, with no comments.
