This Man Heads the Executive Department with the Worst Record On Transport Pollution. Who Is He? Environment Minister Ross Finnie

Sunday Herald (December 19, 2004)

Author: Rob Edwards Environment Editor

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ENVIRONMENT ministers and officials, who are meant to be leading the campaign to cut the pollution that causes climate change, are by far the biggest transport polluters in the Scottish Executive.

Ross Finnie and his team at the Environment and Rural Affairs Department have turned out to be much more frequent fliers than any other Executive department.

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This Man Heads the Executive Department with the Worst Record On Transport Pollution. Who Is He? Environment Minister Ross Finnie

Air travel is the most polluting form of transport available, emitting two or three times more climate-wrecking carbon dioxide per person than train travel.

The revelation has prompted fierce criticism fr...

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