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Fraser Stewart

@fraserjfstewart.bsky.social
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Making clean energy work against poverty, inequality and injustice. Believer in big ideas. Working class bairn at heart. Scottish/UK, climate, energy, people power, class and justice.

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Community Energy Scotland @cescotland.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Our first ask is a target: 🎯 1GW of community-owned energy by 2030. That's 10x higher than now. Ambitious? Yes, but achievable. @rescoop.eu say "In EU countries with such goals in place, clear policy signals and investor confidence has led to significant growth of the community energy movement.”
Photo of 6 people plus a collie dog, standing in front of and spaced out from a small wind turbine. There is a low landscape and cloudy blue sky behind them. White text on the image says: "Ask #1: 1GW of community-owned energy by 2030."
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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 12/08/2025
⚖️🔋 What does a just transition mean for #CommunityEnergy in the UK? Join our live Q&A with @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social on how community energy can drive a fairer #NetZero, and why justice must be at the heart of the UK’s energy future. 👉 Find out more: buff.ly/5gXjykO
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The world isn't silent on Gaza - this is by far the most vocal I have seen the general public on a political issue in my lifetime. I have also never seen a bigger difference between the anger of the public and the inaction of specific institutions and governments. That's the crucial disconnect.
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
We’ve known community energy punches well above its weight for some time. It’s not just about energy - it’s about wealth, resilience, engagement, power and prosperity. It’s also really popular. It won’t do ‘net zero’ alone, but it has to be a core pillar of any successful, just transition.
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Platform @platform1983.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms. But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Fact check: it's natural gas, not renewables, keeping electricity prices high in the UK. www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...
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Factcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high - Carbon Brief
The UK’s high electricity prices have become intensely political, with competing claims over the cause of rocketing bills and how best to get them down.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Proud to have put my name, with so many colleagues, to this brilliantly drafted letter
bbc.co.uk
Hundreds of lawyers call for UK sanctions on Israel over Gaza war
Their letter warns of genocide in Gaza, and calls on the UK to take concrete actions to meet its international legal obligations.
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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Permits, we don't need no stinking permits. In a textbook case of environmental injustice, Elon Musk is poisoning the air in a poor, predominantly black neighborhood in Memphis with unpermitted gas turbines to power his "Grok" AI facility 1/. @politico.com
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'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Unforgivable
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
So if a Global North govt chases the wish of retreating from the world, this is because they are deeply cynical, gravely misguided, or desperately afraid. It may work for an election, it may work for one short period of time, but global crises will eventually find you and the looks won’t be pretty.
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The biggest threat to ‘net zero’ in the UK isn’t the far right: it’s Labour aping their talking points and failing to tackle the austerity and inequality that drives their support. We have to marry these together. Some thoughts from me fraserjfstewart-17.medium.com/picking-up-b...
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Picking up bricks
The first time the police arrived at my door because of something I’d done, I was 11 years old. A friend and I had gotten bored one grey…
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/05/2025
Normalise telling people their 'concerns' are not, in fact, 'legitimate'.
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Reform UK's attempted assault on clean energy infrastructure will have costs for Lincolnshire = not a rich county Too often accusation is all about net-zero zealotry being expensive. Capital investment for sure. But anti-net-zero zealotry definitely has costs www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform’s green energy assault in Lincolnshire ‘puts 12,200 jobs at risk’
Party intends to block projects despite net zero industries contributing nearly £1bn to local economy, analysis shows
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/05/2025
The effect of Israel’s total siege on Gaza has become catastrophic, doctors say. Shortages of food, water and medicine are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths. nyti.ms/3GzOJV1
Children and young men, reaching for food, extend arms holding pots and pans. A headline reads: "As Israel's Blockade Grinds On, Gazan Children Go Hungry And Patients Die" Photo by Saher Alghorra for The New York Times
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met." Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time time.com/collections/...
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Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I was on Reporting Scotland last night discussing what the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery, large local job losses and threats to our energy security. This unjust transition could have been avoided if governments had acted. Workers advocated viable greener alternatives. First report ⬇️
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Reporting Scotland - News at Seven: 30/04/2025
More from the day’s top stories and communities across Scotland.
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Was asked whether the public have lost faith in net zero for radio this morning. I think it's the wrong question. The public still overwhelmingly support climate action. The question is do they trust government to deliver and make good on promises of fairness and prosperity.
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 30/04/2025
Why does Nigel Farage want me to lose my job?
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“Net zero is doomed to fail!!!!” I cackle from my infinity pool of oil and gas money
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accounts-leaving-x.bsky.social @accounts-leaving-x.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Bath & West Community Energy (a financially sustainable community enterprise operating on the basis of a not-for-profit community energy model, and aiming to reduce carbon emissions) leaves X (2.831 followers). BlueSky: @bwce.bsky.social #BlueSkyWins
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
1/12 Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town However it’s a bit odd By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously 🧵🧵
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Add gas networks to this list in anticipation of winding it down while we're at it, tbh
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
British Steel is the latest in a growing line of examples of our failure to plan for a just transition for workers and communities. How many more do we need before we accept that current bosses of high-polluting industries will not deliver this of their own accord?
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The only logical answer to all of this is to build solar on golf courses and turn club houses into community energy hubs. A just transition in action
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Jess Ralston @jessralston.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
3) "What you call green energy [is] driving those prices up, and making it unsustainable to produce steel" This is a statement from Nick, and it is wrong. UK Steel: "The main driver of the price disparity is...driven by the UK’s reliance on natural gas power" www.uksteel.org/electricity-...
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Industrial Electricity Prices – Barrier to growth and competitiveness
New UK Steel report on industrial electricity prices demonstrates that a sizable gap remains between what UK steelmakers and their European competitors pay. The report sets out three recommendations t...
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Kemi Badenoch ditched the Tories’ commitment to reaching Net Zero by 2050 after accepting donations from funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation and Net Zero Watch, both of which have campaigned for the target to be scrapped. @adambienkov.bsky.social
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Kemi Badenoch Ditches Net Zero Target After Taking Donations From Funders of Tufton Street Climate Denial Group
The Conservative leader and her Shadow Net Zero Secretary took funding from key backers of lobby groups campaigning to curb action against climate change
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The biggest financial risk of “net zero” is doing nothing about it and feigning shock as fossil fuel prices soar again, bills fluctuate uncontrollably, fuel poverty deepens and floods/fires/extreme weather cause damage that we can’t afford to fix or protect people from
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
They’re bombing Gaza again. Horrors upon horror www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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At least 30 killed as Israel launches wave of air strikes across Gaza Strip
Israel says it has conducted extensive air attacks on Hamas targets in Gaza, the largest since the ceasefire began.
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Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Some incisive quotes from our main man @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social about how Labour must embrace community ownership to achieve net zero. theecologist.org/2025/feb/13/...
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Labour must embrace community ownership to achieve net zero.
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greener magazine @ktenvironment.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
“Climate action can become popular when people understand its benefits [to] their own communities and… lives” How to talk about climate change beyond the climate bubble - a brilliant article by Caroline Lucas and Rupert Read
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It’s time for climate populism
As politics turns against net zero, we need to mobilise a genuine mass movement against ecological catastrophe.
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Transfer deadline day took a turn www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Rangers search for feral pigs thought to have been released in Cairngorms
Animals suspected of being illegally left in ‘extremely harsh’ environment near where lynx were found last month
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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Wrote this for @heraldscotland.bsky.social about how both governments have utterly failed to deliver a just transition for Grangemouth workers t.co/Utwa0MkFYB
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
If we don't build fairness in at the ground floor, there's a big risk that we replicate or exacerbate inequalities through the energy transition. This might seem like a minor case, but it's an example of the middle-class homeowner focus that is still too prevalent in current energy thinking.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 09/02/2025
“We refuse to leave Gaza and we refuse for anyone to decide these things on behalf of us.” theintercept.com/2025/02/08/trump-g…
A photo of a Palestinian man sitting in front of a destroyed building in the war-devastated Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Feb. 7, 2025, overlaid with the headline, '“You Don’t Own Gaza, Donald Trump”: Palestinians Vow to Remain and Rebuild.'
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Community Energy Scotland @cescotland.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Perth & Kinross community groups - interested in developing local energy projects to benefit your community? Join us, Perth & Kinross Council + BABLE Smart Cities for FREE interactive workshop to help navigate process of creating impactful energy initiatives 📅 19 Feb 📍 Perth/online
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Developing Community Energy in Perth & Kinross
Find out what support is available to help drive community energy development in Perth and Kinross
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
You don't beat the far right by becoming more far right. Between pandering to anti-immigration and failing (so far) to meaningfully challenge austerity or inequality, UKG is consolidating the exact conditions in which Farage & co thrive.
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Almost goes without saying at this point, but a reminder that air pollution hits low income and marginalised communities hardest - despite them being least responsible for the damage. Climate is a class issue. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
theguardian.com
Air pollution causing 1,100 cases a year of main form of lung cancer in UK
Exclusive: Health experts and cancer charities say findings should serve as wake-up call to ministers
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Community-owned energy delivers well on things like fuel poverty, but there's a clear need to (1) raise awareness among low-income and disadvantaged communities and (2) provide real capacity support for them to capitalise. Great thread with useful insights and evidence:
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Racking my brains and getting increasingly nervous that it might be me
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The best way to emphasise your “working class roots” IMO is to unashamedly represent and advocate for working class people. Being from a w/c background is politically meaningless if your actions are actively harmful to those communities.
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404 Media @404media.co · 05/02/2025
You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Fossil fuel companies will not drive the energy transition of their own accord. Dinosaurs don't invest in asteroids. We have to take the lead to put power back in our own hands, starting with gov clearly ruling out new oil and gas including Rosebank (as promised).
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
SMRs aside, I feel increasingly nervous about the "just fix planning" narrative. It misses a much wider context of decades of underinvestment, systematic privatisation of public goods and a growing sense that the transition is being imposed from the top down. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Starmer unveils plans to make it easier to build nuclear reactors - BBC News
The process of loosening rules on where reactors could be built began under the previous government.
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Unpopular opinion (?): Private interests have been systematically eroding democratic power, legitimacy and public service around the world over decades. It’s just never been so brazen.
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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Breaking: Uplift welcomes a very sensible decision from the Court of Session invalidating the decision to approve the Rosebank oil field. Rosebank is a disaster for the climate & will do next to nothing to create the prosperity & stability that the UK needs. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rosebank oilfield decision ruled unlawful by Edinburgh court
Court of session said UK government go-ahead for Rosebank and Jackdaw permits did not take into account carbon emissions
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Fantastic news and immense effort from everyone involved in @stopcambo.bsky.social. We neither need nor can have new oil and gas if we want a secure, affordable and future-proof energy system - difficult to overstate how positive this is for the vast majority of us who aren’t O&G developers.
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Emma Jackson @mrsemmajacko.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We’re talking all things energy for our next foreCASt webinar. @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social will join colleagues from across @citizensadvicescot.bsky.social to discuss the challenges& opportunities in how we ensure affordable, accessible and sustainable energy solutions. Book your place now ⬇️
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Had some fun this morning giving evidence to the UK Parliament Scottish Affairs Committee on GB Energy, just transition and community ownership, including getting the phrase “proud Forfar loon” onto parliamentary record. Have a swatch here: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Have been asked I push community-owned energy so much. Not only is it popular and delivering immense value, but it helps build strong grassroots political networks. In a world of rapid change, economic extraction and political chaos, ownership and organising are two sides of an important coin
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