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Published Date: 29 May 2009
A LEADING environmentalist has accused First Minister Alex Salmond of misrepresenting him over the Scottish Climate Change Bill.
Richard Dixon, the director of WWF Scotland, hit out after he was quoted during First Minister's questions yesterday when Mr Salmond used his remarks from December, which described the bill as "the most ambitious in the world".

The First Minister was responding to an attack from Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott, who quoted a press release issued yesterday by a group of environmentalists that described the bill's 2020 emission targets as "very disappointing".

Mr Dixon later told The Scotsman that he had drafted the press release and his views had been "misrepresented" by Mr Salmond.

He demanded that the SNP stick to its manifesto promise to introduce a meaningful target of more than 40 per cent of emission cuts by 2020. "This bill can still be saved," he said.





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  • Last Updated: 28 May 2009 9:36 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Climate change
 
1

The Creature from the Black Lagoon,

28/05/2009 22:29:38
Oh Dear.

Salmond misleading Parliament again.

It is astonishing how he gets away with it.

How can anyone believe a word he says?
2

The Creature from the Black Lagoon,

29/05/2009 00:02:37
Salmond must resign now for misleading the Parliament.

Clearly his position is untenable.
3

Scotindy,

Los Angeles 29/05/2009 02:51:19
NOW WE HAVE A FIRST MINISTER WHO IS FOR SCOTLAND AND THE ENVIRONMENT. ROLL ON REFERENDUM DAY WHEN WE SCOTS and those who live here, CAN FINALLY SAY GOODBYE TO THE DISCREDITED UNION WITH england and what she represents WESTMINSTER..............
4

connaughtboy,

stonehaven 29/05/2009 07:22:56
Richard Dixon is in a flat spin. What a distasteful little man.
5

connaughtboy,

stonehaven 29/05/2009 07:24:41
We cannot have a man like Dixon heading up WWF Scotland. This is the guy who wants to criminalise people who own patio heaters and who don't have double glazing, but who is quite willing to fly all over the planet himself.
6

The Former Mr. Angry,

Perth 29/05/2009 10:21:53
Dixon keeps on puffing himself up in importance as if anybody cares about these dumb targets when they possibly don't have a job, the economy's wrecked and people like him keep on hypocritically insisting on how we should live when doing the opposite themselves, a bit in fact like MPs, MEPs...

He's entitled to his opinion but so are we.
7

El Franko,

29/05/2009 11:19:16
Mr Dixon and his like are a menace to society, and to the wellbeing of wildlife. Their basic premise about the impact of CO2 on climate is an outright lie, and from that all manner of ills follow. I dream of the day when even The Scotsman will run an expose on the greenies and their selfish destructiveness.
8

Number 6,

Germany 29/05/2009 13:26:46
1 RUFUS, you are such a twonk, you really are. I don't think I have ever come across anyone with such humiliation addiction.

Again, I hardly see the First Minister shaking in his boots at Dixon's "demands".

PATHETIC.
9

Eve,

Scotland 29/05/2009 13:46:28
#2 The Creature from the Black Lagoon: Who do you think should be First Minister then?
10

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29/05/2009 15:28:36
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Iainbroch,

29/05/2009 16:31:30
Got anything to say that is anti Salmond - who cares we will embelish it and publish - Hootsman.

Now where did I leave those shotguns - time to blast some diseased deer what what! Or squash some hedgehogs in the 4x4!

We are going to reintroduce beaver - oh goody - I have not had a decent f!!! in ages!

 

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