Tom Wills
@tomwills60n.bsky.social
Director at Voar | Co-founder at Equitable Energy Research with @dangear.bsky.social
⚡️Our latest Equitable Energy report (released today) argues that repowering windfarms on public land could be the single most viable and consequential #communitywealthbuilding opportunity in Scotland today.👇 ruralsehub.net/wp-content/u... @equitable-energy.bsky.social @neilmcinroy.bsky.social
The massacre of at least 165 Iranian schoolgirls and their teachers, largely ignored or sanitized by the genocidal western media exposes the real objectives of this aggression by two rogue nuclear pow,ers. bdsmovement.net/news/Israeli...
Israeli-US war of aggression on Iran: High time for the global majority to stand up to the might-makes-right order
High time for the global majority to stand up to the might-makes-right order.
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50+ Highland community councils calling for a pause in net zero projects demonstrates the need for far greater local control and benefit from renewables. My latest on Substack following the release of the @equitable.energy report on social value from renewables: open.substack.com/pub/tomwills...
Who benefits from the resources of a place?
Resistance to renewables will continue to grow unless the communities hosting these projects can retain a fair share of value.
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This article is vital reading re. the principles of a 'just' transition. "Wind and solar only require massive natural and human sacrifice if you fail to regulate the corporations that build them". Couldn't agree more. 🙌
All high-success climate action models show a sustained very-high construction rate of new renewable energy for the rest of our lives. This is why development needs to fundamentally respect biodiversity and people: blunt-force approaches cannot deliver smooth growth over many decades.
The impending closure of Grangemouth oil refinery is defining Scotland's unjust energy transition. Next Tuesday, @riyokoshibe.bsky.social and I are presenting research based on interviews with Grangemouth workers @energy-ethics.bsky.social in St Andrews. Sign up to attend in person or online.
Register Now – Energy Cafe – The Unjust Transition at Grangemouth Oil Refinery: Workers’ Perspectives – School V
Hosted by Dr Ewan Gibbs and Riyoko Shibe Fossil fuel workers are central protagonists in achieving a ‘just transition’ to a gre...
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