There are also proposals being put to the SNP’s October conference calling for the creation of a Scottish Energy Development Agency to stop local authorities standing in the way of the Government reaching its target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2045. The proposers say this new agency would develop new energy models and “accelerate local energy system transformation” by “nationally directing the development of energy infrastructure, generation and sustainable fuel supply chains”. There are also proposals for a “full environmental audit” of the Ministry of Defence’s activities in Scotland. In particular, the “dump sites around our coast where millions of tons of high explosives, chemical weapons and radioactive waste was dumped in the sea, the catalogue of nuclear safety events at Faslane and Coulport, and the firing ranges from Cape Wrath to Kirkcudbright”. There should be a “full environmental audit of defence operations, current and historic, across Scotland’s land and waters as a precursor to environmental remediation and rehabilitation by the MoD.”
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