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As I said, it is a modest measure, financially speaking, but it can produce significant benefits. Frances has done some of the peer training, so she might want to add to my answer.
After I asked for a pay rise many years ago, the same boss likened me to his wife, who, he told me, also liked “a bit of extra pin money.” I was a producer in corporate video production.
More to the point, I say well done to the three organisations that were involved in producing and publishing the report. This is one of those issues that we all suspected was happening but it was almost impossible to prove.
In 2017, Scotland secured more than 68.1 per cent of its electricity from renewable energy schemes and our renewable energy industry grew by 26 per cent. We now produce 25 per cent of the renewable energy that is used across the UK.
I have not had time to discuss this with the rest of my colleagues, but it strikes me that you are doing the opposite: you are producing a bill that will not be comprehensive.
Pressure might be put on the Scottish Government to look at the wider UK picture and, in such circumstances, there might be regression and we might have to look to our own farmers and producers for these items and stick with them.
Mr Lidington chose to make that a full meeting of the JMC(EN), which was not helpful in the sense that informal discussion sometimes has a chance of producing results when formal discussion does not.
It is a fact, however, that the incineration process, in whichever form, produces acid gases, particulates, dioxins, airborne heavy metals and ash residues.