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The Scottish government today published a fascinating Marine Atlas with much useful information and data on Scotland’s marine environment. The map above (larger version available here) shows the extent of Scotland’s territorial seas (12 mile limit) and continental shelf (200
Continue reading(This Comment piece was published in The Herald on 4 February 2010.) The debate in England about the future of the public forest estate is now causing some serious discomfort for the coalition government as MPs are flooded with letters
Continue readingphoto: Andrei Taranchenko via flickr Scottish Natural Heritage published a report last month which showed that ‘nature’ tourism is worth at least £1.4 billion to the Scottish economy. This includes contributions from activities such as walking, bird watching and canoeing.
Continue readingLatest news on access situation in Inverleith Park The Park Rules for Glasgow and Dundee make it explicit that any event charging money needs a Section 11 order. The Edinburgh Access Forum noted in 2006 that the existing park rules
Continue readingFurther news about the access situation at the Taste of Edinburgh event in Inverleith Park at Guardian blog posted at 1552 hours today. Since then I have had a further response from the Council claiming that access rights are exempted
Continue readingEdinburgh Council has now replied to me declining to uphold my access rights. They don’t deny I have them though. I’ve written back asking them to take action under Section 14 of the legislation (the bit about removing obstructions) Meanwhile,
Continue readingI have written a piece in the Guardian Edinburgh blog today about the Taste of Edinburgh food festival taking over Inverleith Park. A huge fence has been erected around the park denying the public access. On Friday, I wrote to
Continue readingGood to hear Professor James Lovelock who, at 90, is still making us think. “trying to save the planet is a lot of nonsense” I’ve always thought that.
Continue readingForgive me for continuing this thread on Scotland’s seabed but I’ve just caught sight of an interview on 16th March with Alex Salmond about Scotland’s marine renewables potential. Now I think that the progress made with marine renewables is very
Continue readingIn an article about marine energey in the Sunday Times business section titled “Alex Salmond’s bid to rule the waves”, Jane Bradley writes the following. According to Alex Salmond, Scotland’s first minister, this is the first step in a plan
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