苏格兰政府已同意在彼得黑德建设一座有争议的新燃气发电站。该项目由SSE和Equinor公司开发，发电量约为900兆瓦，并包含碳捕集设施。
The Scottish government has given its consent for the construction of a controversial new gas-fired power station at Peterhead. The scheme, by SSE and Equinor, will generate about 900 megawatts of electricity and includes provision for carbon capture.
环保组织“苏格兰地球之友”坚持认为，这一决定使苏格兰陷入对化石燃料的依赖。
Environmental group Friends of the Earth Scotland insist the decision locks Scotland into a dependence on fossil fuels.
但支持者表示，新的碳捕集技术可将新电站的排放量削减90%以上。SSE表示，该项目能否交付取决于苏格兰碳捕集集群的进展。
But supporters say new carbon capture technology could slash emissions from the new site by more than 90%. SSE said its delivery was contingent on progress with the Scottish carbon capture cluster.
该电站的申请获批当天，苏格兰议会正就气候变化和气候正义问题进行辩论。
The application for the power station was consented on the same day that Holyrood debated the issues of climate change and climate justice.
现有的彼得黑德设施已发电四十余年，但如今它是苏格兰最后一座燃烧化石燃料的电站。
The current Peterhead facility has been generating electricity for more than four decades but it is now the last in Scotland to burn fossil fuels.
SSE此前曾表示，打算用新的“彼得黑德2号”取代该电站——不过气候活动人士担心，两座设施将继续同时运营。
SSE has previously said it intends to replace this site with the new 'Peterhead 2' - though climate campaigners have raised concerns that both facilities will continue operating together.
苏格兰东北部绿党议员玛吉·查普曼表示，现有的燃气电站是“苏格兰最大的气候污染源”。
North East Scotland Green MSP Maggie Chapman said the existing gas-powered station was "Scotland's largest source of climate pollution".
她还说，“政府没有着手解决这一问题并减少其影响，反而决定扩大它”。该决定也遭到运动组织Uplift的谴责。
She added that "instead of tackling that and reducing its impact, the government has decided to expand it". The decision was also condemned by campaign group Uplift.
一位发言人表示：“我们对昂贵天然气的高度依赖推高了能源账单，导致数百万人今年冬天面临难以抉择的困境。”
A spokesperson said: "Our high dependency on expensive gas is what's driving our energy bills up and leading to millions of people facing impossible choices this winter.
“因此，令人难以理解的是，苏格兰政府为何想让我们再被锁定在这种依赖中30年。”苏格兰政府一位发言人表示，对社区、自然和文化遗产的潜在影响——包括多个开发项目的累积效应——是决策过程中的“重要考量因素”。
"So, it is inconceivable why the Scottish government would want to lock ourselves into 30 more years of it." A Scottish government spokesperson said the potential impacts on communities, nature and cultural heritage - including the cumulative effects of developments - were "important considerations" in the decision-making process.
他们表示，决定的完整理由已在一封信中列明，“不宜进一步置评”。
They said the full grounds for the decision were set out in a letter and it "would not be appropriate to comment further".
SSE Thermal董事总经理Finlay McCutcheon表示：“这是一个重要里程碑，该项目有潜力提供灵活的低碳电力，以支持以可再生能源为主导的能源系统，同时在苏格兰东北部创造并维持优质就业岗位。”阿伯丁大学能源转型主任John Underhill表示，苏格兰政府的决定表明其接受天然气将在“未来几十年内成为该国能源和电力结构的重要组成部分”，同时也承认其气候义务。
Finlay McCutcheon, managing director of SSE Thermal, said: "This is an important milestone for a project which has the potential to provide the flexible, low-carbon electricity needed to support a renewables-led energy system while creating and sustaining good jobs in the north-east of Scotland." John Underhill, Aberdeen University's Director for Energy Transition, said the Scottish government's decision demonstrated its acceptance that gas will be a "vital part of the country's energy and electricity mix for decades to come" while acknowledging its climate obligations.
他说：“这一决定也为Acorn项目（苏格兰集群）提供了急需的生命线，因为它赋予了后者新的使命，即储存Peterhead发电站的排放物，此前Grangemouth和Mossmorran关闭导致其失去了来自这两地的排放物供应。”
He said: "The decision also provides a much-needed lifeline for the Acorn project (Scottish cluster) too since it gives the latter a new purpose to store emissions from the Peterhead power station after losing supplies of emissions from Grangemouth and Mossmorran when they closed."