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visit from a guy who explained how it would work and that was it.
“I thought I was going to have pay but no. It was all free.
“Now it’s warmer and much nicer to look at.”
Speaking ahead of Jeremy Hunt’s Budget, Harvie said he was “rarely hopeful” that announcements from the UK Government would help Scotland.
He said: “One of the really big issues the UK Government needs to deal with – and they’ve acknowledged this is breaking the link between gas and electricity prices.
“At the moment, Scotland is generating all of this cheap, abundant and clean renewable electricity, which is cheapest form of electricity generation.
“Yet we’re not able to pass that benefit on to bill payers because we’re paying electricity at an artificially high price because it’s linked to gas.
“If the UK breaks that link, then we can remove a lot of the barriers people feel are there when it comes to shifting to electricity for both heat and transport.”
It comes as the Scottish Government’s consultation on its Heat in Buildings Bill is set to close on March 8.
The bill is set to introduce a new law that will require homeowners to make sure that their homes meet a reasonable minimum energy efficiency standard by 2033, with private landlords required to meet this standard by 2028.
BELIEVE in Scotland are set to launch a group to “embed cultural and creative activities” in the Yes movement.
The campaign organisation will hold Creating Scotland’s first event in Perth at the end of March, with a line-up including music, comedy, and poetry.
Activists are invited to join the event at the Royal George Hotel on Saturday, March 30, and “start to create a vision for a better independent Scotland”.
The date is co-ordinated with the opening of the new Perth Museum which will hold the Stone of Destiny after a £27 million redevelopment project. The Stone of Destiny will be the centrepiece of the new museum and will be free for all to view.
Local activists hope that the opening of the museum will ensure