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Campaigners hit out at Scotland’s climate-wrecking roads programme
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CAMPAIGNERS have hit out at Scotland’s climate-wrecking roads programme, which is due to double in size despite the SNP’s climate emergency pledge.
Transform Scotland’s Roads to Ruin study, released today, found ministers intended to nearly double their spending on new roads over the next decade.
The group said the government must call for road-building to stop, as transport was the largest source of emissions and there was no progress in reducing these for 30 years.
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