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Euan Stainbank's Climate-related Tweets, Speeches & Votes

We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Euan Stainbank

• 3 Apr 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  Cleaner technology than incineration is progressing rapidly, and many of the options presented in Project Willow last month for investment in Grangemouth involved novel waste management or bio-feedstock technologies. Those advancements could help to reduce the demand for incinerators in Scotland, so if anyone is interested in investing in the opportunities in Grangemouth, I urge them to get in contact with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.

  That highlights the need for a strategic approach. Waste incineration is not a viable long-term solution if we are serious about our climate goals. The Scottish Government have accepted recommendations from the “Stop, Sort, Burn, Bury?” review by delivering a moratorium in 2022, but contrary to another recommendation of the review, they have not provided an indicative cap on waste incinerators. That risks entrenching a practice that they are otherwise indicating should be phased out. Many groups have raised reasonable concerns about the prospect of the overcapacity of incinerators beyond the ban on biodegradable waste to landfill, which kicks in later this year in Scotland.

  Recycling rates currently stand at 44% in the UK but at 42.1% in Scotland, with Wales largely leading the way. I welcome the fact that Falkirk’s recycling rate is 50.7%. I credit that to the ridiculously hard-working waste and climate change officers at Falkirk council, with whom I had the honour of working when I was a councillor, as well as fantastic community volunteers, including my successor, Labour Councillor Claire Aitken, who has set up regular litter picks in our ward. There is still so much more to be done to drive up recycling rates.

  Full debate: Waste Incinerators

• 8 Oct 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  The clean power by 2030 mission shows the clear intention of this Government to get on with the just transition. Energy workers in Falkirk, Grangemouth and across the central belt are rightly concerned about jobs. Between 2013 and 2023, under the previous Government, jobs in the UK oil and gas sector halved. Unfortunately, some of the Opposition parties have opposed the stream of funding for clean infrastructure and jobs of the future that will come from an increase in the energy profits levy on the record profits of oil and gas giants. Does the Secretary of State agree that it is time Opposition parties started putting their own plans forward on how they would get on with the just transition and deliver clean energy jobs at a critical time for workers and the climate?

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions

• 30 Jul 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  We must also make young people’s priorities our priorities and clearly show ambition for our future when tackling issues such as the cost of housing, the cost of living, mental health, the climate crisis, the moral stain of child poverty, and the NHS. While many young people understand that we must efficiently progress our progressive economic agenda, they deserve to see substantial progress by the end of this Parliament. I look forward to further credible plans being put forward by this Labour Government to make sure we can tackle those issues. I am especially looking forward to the first Labour Budget in the autumn, when I will work tirelessly on behalf of the people of Falkirk, advocating to see us permanently and sustainably end the cruellest policies enacted during the past 14 years. As the people of Falkirk demanded change at this election, the young people of Falkirk, Scotland and the United Kingdom demand that they now see change. I will use my seat and my voice to champion them.

  Full debate: Budget Responsibility Bill

• 08 Jun 2024: Tweet

  Our teams out on the doors today. A positive response to Labour's message on: economic stability, the biggest advance in Workers Rights in a generation and the only Green Prosperity plan protecting jobs while meeting net zero. ???????????????????????????????? #VoteScotLab24 https://twitter.com/Euan4FKSouth/status/1799477049847132344/photo/1 [Source]

• 06 Jun 2024: Tweet

  RT @CoopParty: GB Energy will deliver community energy to deliver power and profit from green community owned renewable energy projects.… [Source]

• 25 Apr 2024: Tweet

  RT @GirlchampJinty: if you could rolling back on climate targets and plunging public services into crisis mode by @HumzaYousaf disastrous C… [Source]

• 13 Mar 2024: Tweet

  We need a government that is committed to keeping Grangemouth working. The Labour plan to invest in Grangemouth as a key part of the just transition shows clearly why we need to boot the Tories out and get a Labour government in at the election. https://twitter.com/ScottishLabour/status/1767948650578092522 [Source]

• 29 Feb 2024: Tweet

  ???? The SNP and Tories blocked 250k extra for a Net Zero Community fund to further help communities who wished to take on buildings the SNP and Tories decided to close. ???? The SNP and Tories blocked 250k extra funding for accessible playparks. (8/12) [Source]

• 19 Feb 2024: Tweet

  Windfall taxes on record energy giants profits and building a publicly owned clean energy company headquartered in Scotland, bringing thousands of new jobs. This is a progressive energy policy that acknowledges the need for greater ambition to meet net zero targets. ????✊️ [Source]

• 13 Oct 2023: Tweet

  Pleasure to attend conference after missing it last year. Spent my time at the fringe discussions on topics like skills, net zero, youth engagement, food poverty and local government. As well as snapping a picture with everyone's favourite new MP at the Sunday evening Ceilidh. https://twitter.com/Euan4FKSouth/status/1712749183055098289/photo/1 [Source]

• 31 Jul 2023: Tweet

  @MonicaLennon7 How is he planning on offsetting the substantial impact of that far into the future extraction to make the UK Net Zero ambitions at all feasible? [Source]

• 20 Jun 2023: Tweet

  Scotland misses its target for cutting greenhouse gases with domestic transport the largest emitter. If the SG want to reduce individual car miles they must match this with the proper resources to allow public transport to properly serve our people. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65960717 [Source]