Environmental Justice for Torry Communities

As an amendment to motion S6M-00606 in the name of Maggie Chapman (Environmental Justice for Torry Communities), leave out from "facilitate" to end and insert "provide land required for a port-centric energy transition zone (ETZ); recognises what it sees as the importance of transitioning away from fossil fuels, but also the negative impacts that over-industrialisation can have on resident communities, such as poor air quality, loss of green space and various forms of pollution, including noise; believes that community green spaces are positive for mental wellbeing and people's right to a healthy environment; appreciates the value of having an award-winning, biodiverse area of woodland, wetland and recreational grassland in these areas, which experience multiple social deprivation; acknowledges the opposition to the re-zoning by the community in Torry, including the Friends of St Fittick’s Park campaign, on environmental justice and community wellbeing grounds; considers these sites to be valuable to the people and their rezoning to be inappropriate, and calls on Aberdeen City Council and the Harbour Board to work with the communities to find an alternative site for the ETZ, maximising the use of existing infrastructure wherever possible, and to urge the Scottish Government to make funding for an ETZ conditional on respecting the Just Transition Policy."