Scotland's North Sea energy policies 'irreconcilable with green government'
Alex Salmond under fire after the data reveals huge environmental cost of using reserves of oil and gas to finance the independence
claims Alex Salmond, who leads one of the greenest of governments around the world has been vigorously challenged the plans after the new North Sea could pump up to 10 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
major climate scientists and environmentalists said the First Minister of Scotland, was convicted of "indefensible" and "irreconcilable" policies on energy and climate change seriously undermine global efforts to prevent significant global warming.
Guardian An analysis of the energy strategy of their government discovered his plans to sell 24 billion barrels of oil and gas 12 (Bboe) over the next 40 years, an estimated £ 1 5 bn - more oil available - mean release 5,2-10.4 billion tons CO2 in the atmosphere.
This figure verified by climate experts, eclipse the impact of the "world leader" Scottish legally binding targets to reduce CO2 emissions by 42% in Scotland in 2020, to 40m tonnes .
a parallel goal of generating the equivalent of 100% of its domestic electricity needs from renewable energies by 2020, a policy that will save only 9 million tonnes of CO2 by 2020, while allowing only new coal plants that use a portion of the carbon capture technology.
Kevin Anderson, deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change in Manchester and one of the climate scientists in the United Kingdom the highest stated that the world was dangerously close to violating the levels Security CO2 atmosphere. "Undoubtedly, it is an important and serious contradiction," he said.
"Unable to reconcile the position of holding additional fossil fuels while maintaining our commitments [to reduce carbon emissions]. To enable us to meet our international obligations, can not justify the extraction other fossil fuels. "
Salmond is the opening of an annual conference of the low-carbon investment in Edinburgh on Wednesday, when the Secretary of Energy in the United Kingdom, Ed Davey, and the President of the UK Green Investment Bank, Mr. Smith, are among the speakers.
- Salmond has described climate change as "a great injustice", but his government has admitted that he completed in July this year binding target to reduce annual emissions. Emissions Scotland has increased by 6% in 2010 to 56 million tonnes of CO2.
- Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, a broad coalition of 60 environmental groups, development charities, churches and trade unions organized a mass lobby of the Scottish Parliament later this month, urging Salmond to "recover" to reduce emissions.
- Richard Dixon, Director of WWF Scotland the environment, said: "It is clear that Scotland is untenable considering making a low carbon economy, but also very happy to export billions barrels of oil to burn for another person. "
- Other experts believe rightly
- Scotland can export oil and gas in the short and medium term, but he had to redouble their efforts to reduce the demand for fossil fuels in tandem to force implementation of alternatives to low carbon.
- Professor Stephen Salter, who received the first medal Saltire Prize for his pioneering work in marine energy at the University of Edinburgh by Salmond last year, said that energy policy and climate "does not match".
The Scottish government said exports of fossil fuels is not related to national carbon emissions in Scotland and said that some of the energy that has been subject to the rules of the European Union carbon . Scotland
to secure their future energy supplies and reduce dependence on fuel imports, while providing the fuel needed for transport and industry in the foreseeable future, and insisted that is " too fast "in the new low carbon technologies. "Our oil and gas strategy is to maximize the proportion of oil and gas which are recovered from each field. This is the sensible approach to management, which are limited resources, "said a spokesman.
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