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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the statutory consultees which the developer of a floating offshore wave energy power station moored to the seabed has to consult before mooring the station on site and when such consultation should take place.
The Executive is intending to consult shortly on proposals to introduce an assessment framework to ensure that dust emissions from opencast coal sites are kept within environmentally acceptable limits.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 March 2000
To ask the Presiding Officer whether, if the Holyrood Project is cancelled, alternative sites outside Edinburgh, in particular in Glasgow, will be considered as the location of a new Scottish Parliament building.
Male violence against women continues and the statistics remain horrific. The challenge for those who express sympathy for victims is not to say that something should be done and that we must help, but to ask the harder question: why is this happening?
For example, one of the Edinburgh tramlines will run along the shore, which is both a special protection area under the habitats directive and a significant geological site of special scientific interest. The details of the tramline proposal do not make clear the extent to which the SPA and the SSSI will be impacted—whether the site will be built on or whatever—and there is no clear assessment of that.