Aberdeen Community To Lose Last Green Space In Energy Transition Land-Grab

A marginalised community in Aberdeen is fighting a green land-grab for Scotland’s “Energy Transition Zone”.  Campaigners from Climate Camp Scotland, This is Rigged, and Scot.E3 demonstrated outside the headquarters of Ironside Farrar in solidarity with residents of Torry. Torry is to be the site of a large-scale industrial development that threatens a precious local park and wetland. The coalition was protesting the advancing implementation of Scotland’s so-called Energy Transition Zone. The supposed shift to a green energy future to tackle the climate crisis is far from just. This will be for wind power and the nascent green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. The new zone will gobble up a local neighbourhood’s final green space. It will invite new polluting projects into a community overburdened with harmful industries. In 2021, 22 medical professionals from across Northeast Scotland issued an open letter against the project.t   The life expectancy of residents in Balnagask – the area of Torry closest to the park – was 13 years shorter than in another neighbourhood in Aberdeen, which happened to have a mature woodland on its doorstep. Torry residents’ healthy life expectancy was 20 years lower.