Grangemouth Future Industry Board minutes: December 2022

Minutes of the tenth meeting of the Board on 8 December 2022.


Attendees and apologies

  • Falkirk Council
  • Fuel Change
  • Scottish Enterprise
  • Scottish Environmental Protection Agency
  • Scottish Futures Trust
  • Scottish Government
  • Skills Development Scotland
  • Transport Scotland

Items and actions

Purpose

The meeting covered three substantive items:

  • a presentation from Scottish Environmental Protection Agency’s Regulator’s Pioneer Fund bid
  • an update from Falkirk Council on the Grangemouth Flood Protection Scheme
  • discussion around existing stakeholder engagement plan

Key Board decisions/points raised at GFIB meeting 10

  • representatives from Scottish Environmental Protection Agency presented an overview of their bid into the Regulator’s Pioneer Fund
  • the board agreed that a streamlined regulatory approach would serve as a useful mechanism for collaborative working
  • board agreed that the next phase of GFIB should focus on delivering engagement with industry
  • board discussed just transition as a key element of all GFIB business moving forward.

Actions summary

  • partners to develop and agree at GFIB 11 a future direction which will demonstrate a stronger focus on industry collaboration and delivery – March 2023
  • Falkirk Council to circulate papers on Greener Grangemouth Workshop – March 2023
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