Low Carbon Nation? by Hodson Mike;Marvin Simon;

Author:Hodson, Mike;Marvin, Simon;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1244773
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Through a reviewing process, NPF2 identifies such developments, which include strategic rail and airport enhancements, facilities for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, the Metropolitan Glasgow Strategic Drainage Scheme to upgrade and replace drainage infrastructure across Glasgow (but particularly in the east end), and a Central Scotland Green Network, which addresses issues such as woodland expansion, strategic habitat networks and habitat development projects, strategic routes for active travel, and recreation.25

There are numerous different low carbon roles that can be identified for urban areas in the Central Belt: as job creator and economic developer; as a context for research and development; as an energy generator; and as an investment centre.

One can see the ways in which the low carbon agenda in areas of the Central Belt is being cast as an economic development and job creation agenda. Leith, in the old port area of Edinburgh, is an area where there this kind of activity is prevalent. The Scottish government announced in January 2012 that the Leith Docks area was to be designated a Local Low Carbon Enterprise Area, a status designed to attract inward investment into Leith through unspecified incentives, which could include discounted business rates. This designation followed the 2011 development of a masterplan that set out a vision for the docks based on retail and property development but which by 2012 had become focused on renewable energy manufacturing. The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Scottish Government, through Scottish Enterprise, the City of Edinburgh Council and Forth Ports, to work in partnership to regenerate the docks includes efforts to position the docks as a hub for renewable energy manufacturing with an emphasis on the manufacture of turbines.

It is this context that, in March 2012, the Spanish company Gamesa chose Leith as the site of its new plant for manufacturing wind turbine blades – this is in addition to an offshore wind technology centre that Gamesa had opened near Glasgow in 2011. The claim was made that the

Figure 5.5 Saying no to biomass in Leith

Source: Friends of the Earth Scotland

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