Environment
Named: the ‘dirty dozen’ companies that pollute Scotland
Scotland’s most polluting companies have been named and shamed in a new database compiled by the government’s Scottish Environment Protection Agency.
Environment
Environment, Nuclear weapons
Revealed: UK’s secret plan to dump 22 nuclear submarines in Scotland
The UK government secretly planned to dump the radioactive hulks of 22 nuclear submarines in the sea off north west Scotland, documents released by the National Archives reveal.
Environment
Bats facing death due to railway bridge repairs
Data obtained by The Ferret has revealed that most of the maintenance work carried out on Scotland’s rail viaducts in the last two years has failed to include recommended surveys for bats.
Environment, Politics
Revealed: how Scottish airports lobbied for £300m tax cut
Scottish airports have pushed for a £300 million tax cut in at least 14 meetings with ministers and MSPs over the last nine months.
Environment
Anger over licences to kill 4,000 ravens
Revelations that farmers and landowners in Scotland have been licensed to kill more than 4,000 ravens in the last four years have sparked a chorus of criticism from campaigners.
Environment
Exhaust fumes blamed for killing mountain wildlife
Pollution from vehicle exhausts is “devastating” the fragile wild plants that cling to the artic summits of Scotland’s highest mountains, say conservationists.
Environment
Fish that eat lice off farmed salmon suffer, says report
The use of cleaner fish on Scottish salmon farms as a treatment for sea lice should be suspended due to serious welfare issues, according to a report by animal rights campaigners.
Arms trade, Environment, Human rights, International, Nuclear weapons
MSP pensions invested in iPhone firm with mass suicides
The pension fund for Scotland’s MSPs has invested over £100,000 in a Taiwanese company blamed for mass suicides at its iPhone factories - as well as in Russia, weapons, fossil fuels and tobacco.
Environment
Published: film of seabed ‘pulverised’ by scallop dredging
Underwater film footage revealing the damage allegedly caused by illegal scallop dredging is being published by The Ferret in the wake of claims that protected wildlife areas are being “pulverised”.