Just Transition for the Grangemouth industrial cluster: discussion paper

A paper summarising the proposed approach to developing a Just Transition Plan for the industrial cluster of Grangemouth. This will support forthcoming engagement, in aid of a co-design process, that will shape the final Just Transition Plan.


Footnotes

1 Delivering Economic Prosperity (www.gov.scot)

2 Scottish Budget: 2023-24 (www.gov.scot)

3 National Just Transition Planning Framework – Just Transition – A Fairer, Greener Scotland: Scottish Government response – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

4 Aggregated from industry data shared with SE spanning operators including INEOS Chemicals Grangemouth Ltd; INEOS Forties Pipeline System (FPS) Ltd; Petroineos Manufacturing (Scotland) Ltd; Calachem Ltd; Piramal Healthcare UK Ltd; Syngenta Ltd; Versalis UK Ltd; Fujifilm Imaging Colourants Ltd; Suez Industrial Water; Forth Ports Ltd; Celtic Renewables.

5 For the purposes of this emissions calculation, the petrochemical cluster has been defined as the sum of ‘1A1b Petroleum_= Refining’ and ‘2B8g Petrochemical and carbon black production: Other’ categories from the 2021 Scottish Greenhouse Gas inventory.’

6 Committee on Climate Change, December 2020

7 Grangemouth | Forth Ports

8 Export Statistics Scotland 2019, A National Statistics Publication for Scotland

9 See A Transition, Transformation, and Innovation towards Net-Zero in UK downstream, 2020dd

10 Scotland’s National Strategy for Economic Transformation – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

11 About Acorn | A Joint Decarbonisation Venture (theacornproject.uk)

12 Scottish Greenhouse Gas Statistics 2021 https://www.gov.scot/news/scottish-greenhouse-gas-statistics-2021/. “For the purposes of this emissions calculation, the petrochemical cluster has been defined as the sum of ‘1A1b_Petroleum_Refining’ and ‘2B8g_Petrochemical_and_carbon_black_production:Other’ categories from the 2021 Scottish Greenhouse Gas inventory”.

13 INEOS & Hydrogen (ineoshydrogen.com)

14 See INEOS is investing £350m in a new state of the art, energy efficient power plant at its Grangemouth site, 2019

15 See INEOS to invest £500 Million into The Forties Pipeline System, 2019

16 Scottish Enterprise, Piramal Pharma Solutions strengthens UK presence with the expansion and upgrade of its Grangemouth and Morpeth facilities, 2022

Contact

Email: andrew.mccall@gov.scot

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