Leave it in the Ground – Scotland organising meeting

Stop new coal devel­op­ments in Scot­land! Leave it in the Ground

Tues­day 23rd Sep­tem­ber, 7–9pm, Autonomous Cen­tre of Edin­burgh (17 West Mont­gomery Place)

Cat­a­stroph­ic cli­mate change is the biggest threat fac­ing us. Burn­ing coal is the biggest his­tor­i­cal cause of cli­mate change. Yet every day more coal is burned, and the coal indus­try and the gov­ern­ment seem intent on burn­ing even more.

33 new open­cast coal mines and six coal fired pow­er sta­tions are at the plan­ning stage in the UK alone. In Scot­land, the out­look is bleak – many of these new coal mine projects are planned for the cen­tral belt, and two pow­er sta­tions are to be rebuilt.

Rum­blings of an effort to resist these new projects have begun. Leave it in the Ground is a net­work sup­port­ing and devel­op­ing groups across the UK as part of the cam­paign to stop new coal, and is grow­ing in strength. As a net­work, Leave it in the Ground is run by and for the groups that make it up, exist­ing as a way to estab­lish com­mon ground, facil­i­tate net­work­ing and share infor­ma­tion and skills.

This meet­ing aims to get every­one inter­est­ed in stop­ping new coal devel­op­ments in Scot­land togeth­er, and talk about what we want to do about them, under the ban­ner of ‘Leave it in the ground / No New Coal’. And there’s an awful lot to do — from research to com­mu­ni­ty engage­ment and organ­is­ing to tak­ing direct action — its real­ly impor­tant that we get on the case now!

In addi­tion, there is a Leave it in the Ground nation­al net­work­ing meet­ing in Man­ches­ter on the 11th and 12th Octo­ber. We thought it would be good to have a meet­ing in Scot­land before this in the hope that peo­ple would be up for going to Man­ches­ter with feed­back and get Scot­land more involved in the net­work. Please come along!