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Rosie Kane: SSP Chamber
23 Mar 2006
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Toxic Waste (Disposal Sites)
It would seem that those provisions are not being adhered to. The minister will be aware of the precautionary principle, which states:"Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost...
Rosie Kane (Glasgow) (SSP): SSP Chamber
29 May 2003
Scottish Executive's Programme
This is my first speech as an MSP, not my maiden speech. "Maiden speech" implies losing some sort of verbal virginity, but I lost that a long time ago, on the subject that I am going to refer to today.Yesterday, the First Minister talked about best value and environmental just...
Rosie Kane: SSP Committee
29 Sep 2004
New Petitions
The reason that I ask is that I had dealings with Mott MacDonald over a report that it produced for the Scottish Office on the dumping of toxic waste in Rutherglen. Its work was seriously flawed on that issue as well; so for me, Mott MacDonald does not have a good track record...
Rosie Kane (Glasgow) (SSP): SSP Chamber
27 Nov 2003
First Minister's Question Time · M74
Given that the report by the Standing Advisory Committee for Trunk Road Assessment, which was commissioned in the mid-1990s, found that increased motorway construction creates increased traffic, does the First Minister agree that the £500 million that has been set aside for th...
Rosie Kane: SSP Chamber
13 Apr 2005
Scotland's Needs and Aspirations
Not only did I expect an intervention, but I expected the very intervention that Janis Hughes has made. I have put down the answer to her question on paper, so she should bear with me.I described how the Executive is carrying out consultation and making promises in one area, w...
Rosie Kane: SSP Chamber
18 May 2005
Planning Process (M74)
I do not agree. With the M77, we were promised a better economy for the people along the route and less pollution. None of that has come to fruition, so I do not agree with Mr Gallie.The public inquiry would never have taken place if it were not for the active citizens who sta...
Rosie Kane: SSP Chamber
09 Nov 2005
Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3
We want the amendment to pass, because then we would get a full range of expertise on environmental effects and so ensure the protection of the environment. If the amendment falls, health experts will not give their advice on the health aspects of development. For example, exp...
6. Rosie Kane (Glasgow) (SSP): SSP Chamber
23 Mar 2006
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE · Toxic Waste (Disposal Sites)
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to introduce a scheme to clean up toxic waste disposal sites. (S2O-9410)
Rosie Kane: SSP Chamber
08 Jun 2006
Climate Change
I say to Phil Gallie that the public are addressing the problem and are doing their best. More can always be done, but unless we consider what big business is doing globally we will miss the point and take one step forward and two steps back. I will continue in this vein and p...
Rosie Kane: SSP Chamber
08 Jun 2006
Climate Change
I am indeed, so I will get back to Jamie Stone rather than waste any more time by answering him. I will get him on the train home. Interruption. I did not mean anything sinister. I mean that I will have a debate with him in the same way as he will have a debate with Rob Gibson...
Rosie Kane (Glasgow) (SSP): SSP Chamber
21 Feb 2007
Environment
Today's debate is timely given that, on Monday this week, Frances Curran, Patrick Harvie and I joined the Greenpeace International ship the Arctic Sunrise to sail to Faslane to view the horror of the other side of the nuclear industry—weapons of mass destruction. Nuclear weapo...
Rosie Kane: SSP Chamber
11 Jan 2006
Sustainable Development
The minister is aware of the pollution levels. The same pleas were made in relation to the M74 and the M77. We have those pollution levels because too many cars are on the roads. Building roads simply moves those cars to another place and, in the long term, increases traffic a...
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Chamber

Plenary, 23 Mar 2006

23 Mar 2006 · S2 · Plenary
Item of business
SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE
Toxic Waste (Disposal Sites)
Environment and Rural Development
Kane, Rosie SSP Glasgow Watch on SPTV
It would seem that those provisions are not being adhered to. The minister will be aware of the precautionary principle, which states:

"Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation."

Is the minister aware of the carcinogens that lie underground in Cambuslang, Carmyle, Rutherglen, Myrtle Park and other areas around Glasgow? As the Scottish Executive accepts the definition of the precautionary principle that I have cited, I ask the minister again to initiate a clean-up of toxic waste sites in Scotland. If he will not do so, will he explain to the people of Scotland why the Scottish Executive will not protect their health and well-being in respect of toxic waste? If it fails to do that, is it not merely paying lip service to the precautionary principle?

In the same item of business

6. Rosie Kane (Glasgow) (SSP): SSP
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to introduce a scheme to clean up toxic waste disposal sites. (S2O-9410)
The Minister for Environment and Rural Development (Ross Finnie): LD
Responsibility for cleaning up toxic waste dumps that are no longer in use rests with the local authority, as primary regulator of the contaminated land regi...
Rosie Kane: SSP
It would seem that those provisions are not being adhered to. The minister will be aware of the precautionary principle, which states:"Where there are threat...
Ross Finnie: LD
We are well aware of the precautionary principle. As Rosie Kane knows, there are a number of sites throughout Scotland—including those to which she refers—wh...