{"id":63620,"date":"2026-10-27T19:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/new-gas-fired-power-station-at-peterhead-is-approved\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T19:22:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:22:48","slug":"new-gas-fired-power-station-at-peterhead-is-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/new-gas-fired-power-station-at-peterhead-is-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"New gas-fired power station at Peterhead is approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The application for the power station was consented on the same day that Holyrood debated the issues of climate change and climate justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North East Scotland Green MSP Maggie Chapman said the existing gas-powered station at Peterhead was &#8220;Scotland&#8217;s largest source of climate pollution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that &#8220;instead of tackling that and reducing its impact, the government has decided to expand it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scottish government previously said a decision would be taken &#8220;following consideration of the application information, consultation responses and representations made by members of the public&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The current Peterhead facility has been generating electricity for more than four decades but it is now the last in Scotland to burn fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cmvg93w8kxq3o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The application for the power station was consented on the same day that Holyrood debated the issues of climate change and climate justice. North East Scotland Green MSP Maggie Chapman said the existing gas-powered station at Peterhead was &#8220;Scotland&#8217;s largest source of climate pollution&#8221;. She added that &#8220;instead of tackling that and reducing its impact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[5017,17254,17255,550,424],"class_list":["post-63620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-approved","tag-gasfired","tag-peterhead","tag-power","tag-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63622,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63620\/revisions\/63622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}