from Sunday Herald, 25 January 2009 Ministers’ plans for a major expansion of renewable energy into the seas around Scotland could threaten wildlife, according to the government’s nature conservation advisers. In a report due out tomorrow, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) will highlight the risk ...

a talk to a Holyrood conference 'Turning the tide: the future of Scotland's water’, Edinburgh, 03 March 2008 First I would like to say something about bottled water. What is the point of it? It's hugely wasteful of resources, ludicrously expensive, and in most cases tastes no different from the wa...

from Holyrood Magazine, 28 January 2007 Scotland is defined by the sea. The crashing waves, the ragged cliffs, the glistening sands encircle the nation’s history, feed its culture, and help shape its psychology. With a shoreline stretching some 11,000 kilometres, hundreds of islands scattered over...

from Sunday Herald, 16 December 2007 Scotland has been accused by the European Union (EU) of 65 violations of laws meant to prevent pollution, protect wildlife and control waste, according to a secret government database released to the Sunday Herald. The number of alleged breaches of European legal...