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Find out more about the latest environmental news in Scotland from Glasgow and Aberdeen to Fife and Edinburgh including investments, funding and regulations to green technology and resources.

The Green Insurance Company sees 19-fold increase in profits

A motor insurance company that 'offsets’ its customers' carbon emissions by planting trees has posted a 19-fold increase in profits after only three years in business.

Scottish firm BiFab wins £4m contract to build prototype tidal energy turbine

A Scottish company has won the contract to build one of the world's most advanced tidal energy turbines.

Climate target 'could cost £8 billion'

The cost to the taxpayer of meeting Scotland's climate change target has been put at about £8 billion by 2020.

Scottish wind energy plans would create 5,000 jobs

More than 5,000 jobs could be created by the development of planned wind turbine manufacturing sites around port locations in Scotland, the country's First Minister Alex Salmond said on Tuesday.

Scottish Government awards £13m to marine energy projects

The Scottish Government has today unveiled five marine energy projects that are to share £13 million worth of development funding to harness energy from Scotland’s waters.

Study looks at storing CO2 in sandstone below Moray Firth

Scientists have begun research into storing carbon dioxide emissions in sandstone rocks deep beneath the Moray Firth off the coast of northeast Scotland.

SNP aims to create 60,000 green jobs

The Scottish National Party (SNP) today unveiled its election manifesto, putting green jobs and the economic recovery at the heart of the party’s campaign. 

Marine energy takes major step forward with awards for 1.2GW of leases

A day after the Government launched its Marine Energy Action Plan, setting out a roadmap for driving the marine energy sector forward, the Crown Estate has announced an unprecedented 1.2 gigawatts (GW) of wave and tidal energy project leases.

E.ON and ScottishPower get CCS funding

Energy companies E.ON and ScottishPower have been awarded a share of £90 million worth of Government funding to compete to build the first commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant in the UK.

Zero Waste Scotland launches £5m plastics recycling fund

Businesses are being invited to bid to share in a £5 million capital grant programme for developing plastics recycling facilities in Scotland.

AWS Ocean Energy wins £2m investment for marine power system

Inverness-based marine energy technology company, AWS Ocean Energy, has secured £2 million of investment to help it commercialise its floating wave energy system, AWS-III.

Scotland streamlines Government waste programmes

The Scottish Government has announced plans to streamline all Government-led, Scottish waste delivery bodies into into a single super body called Zero Waste Scotland.

Offshore wind turbine manufacturing set to kick off in Argyll

An old Vestas factory in Argyll is being upgraded to manufacture wind turbine towers for Scotland's offshore wind industry, creating 300 jobs.

Scottish Government approves over 215 MW of onshore wind energy

The Scottish Government has approved two onshore wind farms and an extension to an existing one – adding up to a combined capacity of more than 215 megawatts (MW) of additional renewable energy.

Fife-based energy consultancy aims to dominate market following £22m sale

Fife-based McKinnon & Clarke (M&C) is aiming to "dominate" the global energy and environmental consultancy market following its sale to a private equity firm for £22 million.


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