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An artists impression of the biomass plant, made using Google Earth. This view looks down Constitution Street from a tall building.If you take a lo...

Forth Ports have submitted a planning application to demolish the Grade B listed grain silo on Leith Docks. They need to do this, in order to clear...

A coalition of five major environmental groups from the United States have written an open letter to the Scottish Government opposing plans by Fort...

Greener Leith just managed to complete our consultation response to the City of Edinburgh Council Draft Area Development Framework Consultation. Yo...

People who went to the big Leith Biomass public meeting will recall that Forth Energy pledged to answer all the questions submitted in advance of t...

Greener Leith has finally just sent a 14,000 word objection to the proposed power plant on Leith docks. Supported by more than 64 external referenc...

  Photo credit: @Yonmei via TwitpicLeithers took the Leith Biomass protest to Holyrood today. The aim of the protest was to encourage more MSP...

Half way through the window for public consultation on the Forth Energy biomass plant, there are so many things to report that this post has become...

The City of Edinburgh Council is to launch a final phase of consultation on the Draft Waterfront Area Development Framework on Valentines Day. Perh...

Only a few minutes ago, a 'packed' public meeting on the Forth Energy proposals for the Leith Biomass plant came to an end. Not everyone who wanted...

Earlier this week we posted a Google Earth file that people can use to find out how the proposed Forth Energy Biomass plant will look from their ho...

In an incredible feat of citizen ingenuity, a local resident has put together a pretty realistic mock-up of the proposed Forth Energy power plant t...

  A detailed planning application has finally been submitted by Forth Energy for a giant power plant on Leith Docks. As this image from the pl...

In London, the "London Eye" (pictured above) has been a popular attraction for visitors for more than 10 years. Now, it would seem L...

Less than 10 days ago, the Scottish Government quietly released a new policy document on thermal energy generation. The paper - Draft Electricity G...

Only a few weeks after Sheila Gilmore MP raised concerns about the Forth Energy 'greenwash' in Westminster, Edinburgh list MSP, Shirley-Anne Somerv...

Once you've been targetted once by direct action campaigners for your plans, you probably get paranoid. Judging by the police van and all the polic...

The Leith Against the Biomass Campaign are encouraging Leithers to visit the Forth Energy 'information' exhibition on Friday at 12.30pm at the Sout...

At the Renewable UK 2010 conference this week, Alex Salmond announced a new £70million fund to help Scottish ports benefit from the huge pote...

Today, an alliance of local residents groups, national environmental NGO's and politicians from across the political spectrum have called on the Sc...

The Scottish Government has agreed to allow the City of Edinburgh Council to borrow £84million to fund infrastructure works in the docks area...

Today, Alastair Tibbitt, from Greener Leith was amongst the speakers at the Edinburgh Communuty Energy Conference. We were set to be part of a deba...

Dundee campaign group RATTS, who are opposed to the construction of a Biomass plant in Dundee similar to the one Forth Energy propose to build in L...

On Thursday the 26th of August, Greener Leith was lucky enough to be invited to a Charrette (that's a workshop in Architect speak) organised by the...

You may not agree with their methods, but there might well be some truth behind their message. Today, a small group of climate camp activists 'occu...

Plans for the regeneration of the docks took a huge step forwards on Wednesday as the City of Edinburgh Council planning committee granted outline ...