Kinghorn Loch, Fife

Red mud in Scotland (Sep 30 2016) The red mud eventually finds its way into settling ponds after treatment to remove the caustic and some of the water. A recent study published in Environmental Science and Technology looked at the environmental legacy left by the discharge of a red mud settling pond into a shallow loch or […]

Fracking gets started in Fife

Ineos has appealed against new controls imposed by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency on the Kinneil oil and gas terminal on the Firth of Forth. https://theferret.scot/ineos-flaring-controls-grangemouth   BBC News – Fife beach ‘worst’ for Ineos plastic  pollution https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-44196556   Frack Off, Ineos: UK Doesn’t Want Fracking for Plastics | Food & Water Europe https://www.foodandwatereurope.org/blogs/frack-off-ineos-uk-doesnt-want-fracking-for-plastics/   […]

Brexit makes sense

1997 British Military Ration Pack containing Duncans Chocolate. A SCOTS firm has been forced to close after losing the contract to supply the British Army with chocolate bars for its ration pack.  Duncans of Scotland  has gone into liquidation with the loss of 25 jobs after losing the contract to Nestle, the Switzerland-based multinational. It […]

The Voyeur Hotel

The Greenmount Hotel in Burntisland which burned down and was eventually demolished. Originally a slave master mansion, built in 1860 with the exploitation profits of plantation slaves. A listed building ‘Gifford attributes Greenmount to Thomas Gibson, dating it 1859; an unknown source names the architects as Peddie and Kinnear, circa 1860; neither attribution has been […]