We are calling out Scotland’s Worst Polluters in the run up to COP26. These polluters have been unrelenting in their dirty ways, disrupting communities, ecosystems and atmosphere alike. Here at GCOP we don’t think such dastardly behaviour should go unrecognised, so we are hosting the Scottish Polluter Awards 2020-21 and need your help to decide the winning losers!

Nominees for our awards include a whole host of nefarious actors who must shoulder considerable responsibility for making Scotland a net contributor to ecological destruction, climate catastrophe, and global inequities. 

From BP, up for multiple awards including our ‘North Sea Numpty’ Award, a massive contributor to historic global carbon emissions, who sit on the North Sea’s largest oilfield and continue to obtain new exploration contracts, while employing slick PR to promote their highly dubious carbon net zero ambitions.

Next to Oil and Gas UK, a trading association for the UK’s offshore oil and gas industries, who are nominated for multiple awards including our ‘Worst Polluter in a Supporting Role’ Award. OGUK are on constant damage control alert for the fossil fuel industry in the UK, and cozy up to the Scottish government. 

Then there is Mowi, nominated for our ‘Farming Pollution and Subsidies’ Award. Mowi is a Norwegian-owned fish farming and ‘nutrition’ conglomerate, whose cynical PR leans on the striking beauty of Scotland’s sea lochs, all the while degrading them by releasing chemical pollution and running operations with astonishingly high levels of fish mortality