Ian Murray MP attends wedding

Edinburgh MP Ian Murray attends wedding in Edinburgh on Saturday , 27 May.

Ian Murray  has served as Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland since 2020, and previously from 2015 to 2016. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh South since 2010. Since 2019, Murray has been the only Labour Party MP representing a Scottish constituency due to a landslide victory by the SNP and had previously been so from 2015 to 2017.

He previously served as a City of Edinburgh Councillor for the wards of Liberton and Liberton/Gilmerton from 2003 to 2010. A critic of former Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn, in 2020, it was revealed that Murray was initially planning to defect from the Labour Party and join The Independent Group, which later became Change UK; Murray decided against joining the seven defectors and remained as a Labour MP.

Ineos to use hydrogen to power its Grangemouth plant

INEOS says it will convert its vast Scottish petrochemicals plant and oil refinery at Grangemouth to run on hydrogen at a cost of more than 1 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) to make it ‘net zero’ for carbon emissions by 2045.

Britain has a target to reach net zero by 2050 and has significantly reduced emissions from power generation, but has found it harder to cut industry’s carbon footprint.

Andrew Gardner, Chairman of INEOS Grangemouth said the company would initially use gas to produce its own hydrogen on site, so-called blue hydrogen, with at least 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) stored and captured by 2030.

“The next stage would be using green hydrogen,” Gardner told Reuters, to bring the entire site to net zero by 2045.

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