St Fittick’s Park rally at Edinburgh Court of Session

Join Green MSP Maggie Chapman at the Edinburgh rally in solidarity with the Friends of St Fittick’s Park, Aberdeen, in their struggle for their land against the oil and gas industry.

The rally marks the start of the Judicial Review at Edinburgh Court of Session into the plans to destroy and replace St Fittick’s Park – the last green space in Torry, Aberdeen.

Torry is a working class area in Aberdeen that has borne the brunt of the uneven development and inequalities caused by the oil and gas industry for over 50 years. In the 1970s, Old Torry was flattened to make way for fossil fuel infrastructure at the Port of Aberdeen. Today, life expectancy there is more than 10 years lower than elsewhere in Aberdeen.

Torry has recently lost its beach at Nigg Bay to the new South Harbour development. The local community already has to deal with all the rubbish and waste from Aberdeen and the surrounding areas, with both a sewage works and an incinerator looming over homes and the primary school.