AN indy-supporting artist has raised more than £9000 from a crowdfunder launched to help save him from bankruptcy, after an eight-year battle with Scottish Water Business Stream (SWBS). Michael “Wee Skribbles” Larkin was hit with the bill despite not using a drop of water in his Glasgow premises and was stunned to find it could cost up to £20,000 for his supply to be “officially” disconnected. His problems started in December 2013, when he signed the lease for his studio and was billed £100 a month by SWBS dating back to July. Larkin was only paying around £9 a month for electricity and emailed the SWBS support team.
Johnson & Johnson Vision to power global HQ with 100% solar electricity
Johnson & Johnson Vision, the manufacturer of ACUVUE contact lenses, has signed a ten-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with a solar farm to cover 100% of the electricity consumption of its headquarters.
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The deal is between Johnson & Johnson Vision and JEA – a community-owned utility provider located in the same town as the corporate’s headquarters, Jacksonville, Florida.
Under the PPA, Johnson & Johnson will procure electricity from JEA’s portfolio of ground-mounted solar farms from 2022. JEA operates eight major solar arrays in the surrounding area and planning to increase its generation capacity to up to 300MW by the end of next year.
Strike movement in Scotland sparked by end of lockdown measures
The relaxation of coronavirus lockdown restrictions in Scotland, as part of a UK wide reopening of the economy, has sparked a multi-sector wave of strike action, ballots and protests.
Workers are engaged in struggles at universities and colleges, the railways, the National Health Service, the energy and water utilities, together with air traffic controllers, packaging workers and defence industry workers.
All these workers have been designated as essential to the basic functioning of society during the pandemic, consistently risking their lives in unsafe workplaces. Having been cynically lauded as heroes by the UK Conservative and devolved Scottish National Party (SNP) governments, they now face swinging cuts to jobs, pay and conditions. This is part of global assault by capitalist governments and big business to impose the full cost of the pandemic onto the backs of the working class through fire and rehire schemes a
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