Environmental impact
Scotland’s Salmon Crisis
Author / Creator: Mike Small
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
Scotland’s lochs are pockmarked by salmon farming, often foreign-owned and guilty of mass pollution and ... disgusting animal welfare.
How Should Scotland Manage its Scrap Steel?’ The environmental assessment.
Author / Creator: Charlotte Stamper
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
Zero Waste Scotland’s analysts detail the ‘clear and obvious’ environmental benefits of using Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) technology, powered by Scotland’s low-carbon electricity grid, to remanufacture scrap steel in Scotland.
The Economics of Shale Gas Extraction
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Assessment report
Date published: April 2016
Wells become non-productive within a few years, requiring ever more to be drilled. Profit margins are small so require high oil and gas prices. Community stress and negative economic effects are likely. The jobs created are short-lived and highly mobile.