Scuttle coal
The proposed power station would permanently damage one of the best remaining inter-tidal mudflats on the outer Clyde, important for a wide range of bird species and designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
If allowed to go ahead, the development would also make a mockery of the Scottish Government's world-leading ambitions to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change. And it would worsen Scotland's climate debt to the poorest in the world, who are already suffering the devastating impacts of climate change caused by our past emissions.
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Hide AdScotland has enormous renewable energy potential. We should be investing in clean, green, renewable technology alongside improved energy efficiency measures and facilitating demand reduction, not developing new, polluting coal-fired power stations.
Lloyd Austin
Head of conservation policy RSPB Scotland
Juliet Swann
Head of projects and campaigns, Friends of the Earth Scotland
Richard Dixon
Director, WWF Scotland
Liz Murray
Head of campaigns and networks, Scotland World Development Movement