Environment Groups Host Hustings

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Environment Groups Host Hustings

Environment and wildlife groups are combining to challenge politicians on their green credentials at an Election Hustings meeting in Pitlochry on Monday 23 April at 7p.m. in Fishers Hotel.

Candidates from the major parties will be quizzed on their environmental policies at a public question time at Fishers Hotel, Pitlochry. The evening is to be chaired by Mark Stephen, BBC’s “Out of Doors” presenter. Candidates confirmed to date include John Swinney, Murdo Fraser, Mark Ruskell, and James Taylor.

The event is being staged by the John Muir Trust on behalf of the ‘everyone’ alliance representing more than 20 pressure groups including Friends of the Earth, RSPB, National Trust for Scotland, World Wildlife Fund, the Mountaineering Council of Scotland, and the Scottish Wildlife Trust.

This event is one of a number of ‘Question Time events’ or hustings meetings being organised by the Scottish Environment LINK network as part of the everyone 2007 election campaign.

Hustings

The Hustings meeting, which is free and open to all and tea and coffee are available. The Hustings will provide voters in the Pitlochry area with a chance to raise vital issues such as Beauly-Denny powerline, renewable energy, transport policy, planning, recycling and pollution with potential MSPs representing seats in the area.

Nigel Hawkins, Director of the John Muir Trust, said: “The next Scottish Parliament will have to make crucial decisions on environmental issues such as climate change, alternative energy and transport policy. It is vital that we remind our politicians of the importance of these issues and how strongly people feel about them. The fact that over 17,000 people have objected to the massively intrusive Beauly-Denny powerline – many because of landscape concerns – proves that people care deeply.”