Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎

We’re a climate campaigning organisation and part of the largest grassroots environmental network in the world ✊

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

Do you have a minute to talk?? 🗣️

Join this training to gain some practical skills for having effective conversations in your community about the issues you care about.

Sat 3 Oct, Glasgow 📆
w/ @AmnestyScotland

https://t.co/x0IpbWPFRT

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

National Meeting: Ecocide in Palestine 🇵🇸

Join our online meeting about the environmental impacts of the attacks on Gaza.

We'll hear about new research from the ground, as well what we can do to pressure the UK Gov to act.

📆 Wed 30 Sep

https://t.co/vsFHzbRU0t

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

Writing in @Scottishleftrev, @PeterMcColl decries the repeated environmental injustices on the community in Torry, Aberdeen.

A Play for Torry shows how they are asked to "surrender health, memory & public space" for other people's prosperity.

https://t.co/yLCcYGg14I

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

Great turnout to demand better buses at the Scottish Parliament today! 🚌

Thanks to passengers who came from across Scotland & to MSPs who joined the rally. 🪧

The time has come to put public transport back in public hands! 🤝

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

Demand better buses for Scotland this Wednesday 2nd September!

Join the rally outside the Scottish Parliament at 1pm.

Full info: https://t.co/Hd36WGnI2m

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

Are you angry about the proposed mega data centres in Scotland, and want to hear about communities fighting against them across the world?

Come along to our National Meeting tomorrow at 6.30pm on Wed 26 Aug to learn more.

Book your free place: https://t.co/qmhO5mvXOj

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

Even Trump thinks the oil industry is too greedy.

But @theSNP wants oil company shareholders to keep more of their obscene profits of war.

https://t.co/FWkehmVAcP

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

The immoral profiteers who run these companies don’t care about the impact of their oil and gas on people or the environment.

Even Trump thinks they are too greedy.🤯

Why are Scottish politicians siding with oil company bosses rather than our public services?

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

Is the SNP's position on oil profits more extreme than Trumps?

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

Despite oil companies doubling profits due to the Iran War, SNP are still calling for lower taxes on energy giants.

The Windfall Tax on energy companies has raised £9billion for public services.

But SNP want to scrap it & let oil shareholders keep more of their profits of war.

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

The @edfringe is back soon and we’ve picked fantastic climate-themed shows for you to enjoy 👀

We've got recommendations in comedy, drag musicals, dance & community theatre.🎭

Plus the environmental highlights from the Book, Art & Film Festivals too.📚

https://t.co/83bNnrqWVZ

[Third Force News @ThirdForceNews]

The climate crisis is at our door - so in this month’s mag we asked people working in the environmental and food sectors what they think can be done - we hear from:
@JamiePolitics of @OxfamScotland
@catrina_randall of @FoEScot
and others

Read it all here: https://t.co/S0SvCJKwQJ

[Unite the union: join a union @unitetheunion]

⚡ We need thousands of electricians to install solar panels, windmills, car chargers... So here’s the choice:
🤩 Invest now. Create quality apprenticeships, train the electricians we need and build the green economy of the future
Or
😥 Do it on the cheap. Condemn a generation to unemployment. Have semi-skilled ‘fitters’ do some of what’s needed but lack the skills as a country to build the future
🪧 Take action. https://t.co/aEQKZ7PzvO
@FoEScot

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

2 days to go! Join us this Sat 13 June for a fundraising gig in Glasgow 💚

Featuring Pippa Blundell, Sandino e seu Bando, Alycia Pirmohamed, and Henry Bell.

Book your ticket: https://t.co/Ky4pxVuhBk

[Oil Change International @PriceofOil]

🚨 A devastating new @BBCWorld investigation has obtained internal Shell documents revealing the company knowingly operated a major pipeline in Nigeria for years while it was causing widespread pollution. #ShellKnew

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

Household energy bills are being driven upwards by the insatiable greed of energy companies. 📈

They are profiteering from the war in Iran. 🤑

People in Scotland are paying for the failure of politicians here to transition our energy system away from fossil fuels. 🛢️🔥

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

Since the war in Iran started, it seemed certain that oil companies would be profiteering and people would be hit with higher energy bills.

So why have Scottish politicians spent months pleading for lower taxes on these greedy companies?

https://t.co/ActIDZ4jcT

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

Revealed: 75% of Scottish landfills under investigation over pollution permit breaches

Any companies found to have broken the terms of their permits must be penalised for putting people and nature at risk.

https://t.co/xUZ91tM153

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

"Scientists have little doubt that human-caused climate change - largely the result of the burning of coal, oil and gas - has supercharged the heat."

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

@PriceofOil 4/ The report's conclusion is stark: this would leave "ports with no trade, suppliers with no customers, and skilled workers with no employers."

Public support for climate action remains strong. We need a just transition for workers and communities.

https://t.co/jQIAGU7cnx

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

1/ A new report has put a number on what Reform UK's climate policy rollback would actually cost: nearly 500,000 jobs destroyed within 3 years.

That's comparable to almost every teacher in the UK losing their job.

Here's what the research with @priceofoil found 👇

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

@PriceofOil 3/ The damage wouldn't be spread evenly. Scotland would be hit with 13% of short-term job losses despite being 8% of the population.

Already fragile economies like North East England, East Anglia, the West Midlands, Inverness & the North East highlands would be hit the hardest.