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Russell Findlay speech, , in Edinburgh, Scotland on 17 April 2025

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Russell Findlay speech, at Novotel in Edinburgh, Scotland on 17 April 2025

Pictured: Scottish Conservative MSP Douglas Lumsden

In a speech today, Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay said protecting the environment must not mean forcing ever higher bills on workers and families.

He said the focus needs to be on an “affordable transition” instead of the SNP's “so-called just transition”.

Findlay said that nuclear energy holds the key to that affordable transition, and work should be started on up to nine new small modular nuclear reactors to replace the energy that will be lost by closing the Hunterston B and Torness stations.

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay said: “Protecting our environment and tackling climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our age.

But the SNP’s approach is ill-conceived, inconsistent, chaotic and fundamentally dishonest.

I’d like to lay down a challenge to the First Minister.

I am calling for the SNP’s so-called just transition to be scrapped – in favour of an affordable transition.

I urge the SNP to ditch their empty sloganeering and embrace a considered and pragmatic environmentalism.

A new approach that understands the need to protect our economy and jobs.

That takes the common-sense position of using oil and gas in the North Sea before importing fossil fuels from abroad.

A Scottish Conservative transition is an honest, affordable and pragmatic transition.

It keeps household bills low and gives business a level playing field in a brutally competitive world.

Our nation faces losing out on abundant clean nuclear energy and jobs because of the SNP’s bone-headed ideological opposition.

Nuclear power generated 31 per cent of our electricity in 2021. When Hunterston B in Ayrshire closed that dropped to 19 per cent two years later.

Torness, in East Lothian, is Scotland’s last remaining nuclear power station and is due to close as soon as 2030.

By blocking new nu

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Russell Findlay speech, Edinburgh, 17 April 2025
Russell Findlay speech, at Novotel in Edinburgh, Scotland on 17 April 2025<br /> <br /> Pictured: Scottish Conservative MSP Douglas Lumsden<br /> <br /> In a speech today, Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay said protecting the environment must not mean forcing ever higher bills on workers and families.<br /> <br /> He said the focus needs to be on an “affordable transition” instead of the SNP's “so-called just transition”.<br /> <br /> Findlay said that nuclear energy holds the key to that affordable transition, and work should be started on up to nine new small modular nuclear reactors to replace the energy that will be lost by closing the Hunterston B and Torness stations.<br /> <br /> Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay said: “Protecting our environment and tackling climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our age. <br /> <br /> But the SNP’s approach is ill-conceived, inconsistent, chaotic and fundamentally dishonest.<br /> <br /> I’d like to lay down a challenge to the First Minister.<br /> <br /> I am calling for the SNP’s so-called just transition to be scrapped – in favour of an affordable transition.<br /> <br /> I urge the SNP to ditch their empty sloganeering and embrace a considered and pragmatic environmentalism.<br /> <br /> A new approach that understands the need to protect our economy and jobs.<br /> <br /> That takes the common-sense position of using oil and gas in the North Sea before importing fossil fuels from abroad.<br /> <br /> A Scottish Conservative transition is an honest, affordable and pragmatic transition.<br /> <br /> It keeps household bills low and gives business a level playing field in a brutally competitive world.<br /> <br /> Our nation faces losing out on abundant clean nuclear energy and jobs because of the SNP’s bone-headed ideological opposition.<br /> <br /> Nuclear power generated 31 per cent of our electricity in 2021. When Hunterston B in Ayrshire closed that dropped to 19 per cent two years later.<br /> <br /> Torness, in East Lothian, is Scotland’s last remaining nuclear power station and is due to close as soon as 2030.<br /> <br /> By blocking new nu