Tell your msp: no biofuels at grangemouth!

The Grangemouth oil refinery. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland recently closed with the loss of over 400 jobs. On the advice of the corporate owners, INEOS and PetroChina, the British and Scottish governments are pursuing a variety of proposed conversions to biofuels that would involve dangerous, unsustainable practices and unproven technologies.

Workers’ livelihoods are at risk from this reckless prioritisation of short-term interests over long-term stability. Used cooking oil, a feedstock proposed for the first ten years, would need to be imported from abroad through supply chains characterised by fraud and sloppy auditing, meaning deforestation palm oil would be at risk of being refined at Grangemouth. Other options include the Scottish countryside being depleted by pest-prone monocultures, or a frankly unscalable use of slaughterhouse tallows.

We need MSPs to hear us and understand that there’s no future in biofuels for Grangemouth. Messages from their constituents mean so much more to them, so we’re asking our supporters to get in touch with their MSPs. You can do that here.