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Vicky Allan: Netflix doc takes aim at salmon farms. Is it the end for farmed fish?

The Scottish salmon industry is under fire. You would think, watching two international documentary series featuring segments on salmon farming,...

05.01.2024 3

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Vicky Allan: A quasi-religious ritual? Hangover cure? What the loony dook is about

The official South Queensferry loony dook has been cancelled again – though the presence or absence of any overseeing organisation seems to make...

26.12.2023 7

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Vicky Allan: A quasi-religious ritual? Hangover cure? What the loony dook is about

The official South Queensferry loony dook has been cancelled again – though the presence or absence of any overseeing organisation seems to make...

26.12.2023 4

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Vicky Allan: Climate change has come to Scotland. Its speed should be a wake-up call

“Climate change has already happened,”  says Dr Mike Rivington, one of the scientists behind a pair of new reports into the recent past and...

19.12.2023 10

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Vicky Allan: Do we really need another golf course replacing a prized nature spot?

Do we need another golf course? The answer to that, possibly, depends on whether you are an ecologist, a golfer, or a member of a community like that...

13.12.2023 10

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Vicky Allan: Will heat pumps help Scotland kick its fossil fuel habit?

Often it seems as if there’s more heat than light when we’re talking about decarbonising our heating; more fear and confusion than drive and...

05.12.2023 5

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Vicky Allan: There's an information war against heat pumps. And most of it is noise

We, in Scotland and the rest of the UK, do seem to love a news story about how bad heat pumps are. That seems clear from the number of them produced...

28.11.2023 9

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Vicky Allan: There's an information war against heat pumps. And most of it is noise

We, in Scotland and the rest of the UK, do seem to love a news story about how bad heat pumps are. That seems clear from the number of them produced...

28.11.2023 3

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Vicky Allan: Absentee landowners and financial investors. Can we stop land grab?

The story of Scotland’s extraordinarily skewed pattern of land ownership is far from new and we can credit Andy Wightman for mapping out a great...

21.11.2023 2

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Vicky Allan: Is the deer cull really about stopping the rich having their fun?

There is, according to a Spectator column published last month by Toby Young, a war being waged by the SNP and Greens. It is one “motivated by...

14.11.2023 9

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Vicky Allan: Can Scotland stop Sunak's climate delays scuppering Net Zero plan?

Yesterday's King's speech represented a lesson in reading between the lines and trying to interpret the UK Government doublespeak. King Charles...

08.11.2023 3

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Vicky Allan: Scottish Water – huge bonuses and still the stink of sewage?

There are many reasons not to like the Scottish Water bonuses revealed in this paper at the weekend. One, of course, is that, at a total amounting...

07.11.2023 4

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Vicky Allan: 27 new oil and gas licences. A symbol of Rishi Sunak's hot air

Rishi Sunak still occasionally speaks the language of Net Zero, much to the fury of those Conservative sceptics who would have him ditch all...

31.10.2023 5

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Vicky Allan: Why my train trip to Italy beat flying – and it's not just the CO2

The water at the historic Bad Utoquai, an outdoor bathing facility on Lake Zurich,  gleamed turquoise and all I could think about, as I entered...

24.10.2023 2

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Vicky Allan: Climate change or not, floods are reminder that the weather is bigger

Most of us are weather watchers. We observe the weather. We make our own conclusions, and often they are based around how close any damage is to our...

10.10.2023 9

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Vicky Allan: Fishing lobby deny biodiversity crisis. Is this the new climate denial?

There is something fishy about a  recent report, titled Fishy Falsehoods, from the Shetland Fishermen’s Association (SFA), that aims to persuade us...

03.10.2023 5

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Vicky Allan: Fishing lobby deny biodiversity crisis. The new climate scepticism?

There is something fishy about a  recent report, titled Fishy Falsehoods, from the Shetland Fishermen’s Association (SFA), that aims to persuade us...

03.10.2023 5

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Vicky Allan: I'm with Patrick Harvie... Perhaps the climate needs law-breakers

If you want to appear like any sort of grown-up the general rule is that you say that law-breaking is wrong and you should never ever, and I repeat,...

26.09.2023 20

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Vicky Allan: Who should pay for Net Zero? Surely it has to be the big polluters

One of the biggest issues when it comes to the green transition is who pays for it. For, however much promise there is that renewables paying-off well...

19.09.2023 7

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Vicky Allan: We need lice regulation with teeth to protect our wild salmon

Not long ago, I was shown footage of a Scottish farmed salmon covered in so many lice, it was almost impossible to count the dots – around in...

12.09.2023 20

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