The long-awaited Energy Bill, the subject of the worst in-fighting within the Coalition, is to be unveiled finally in this next week – barring further disruptions to the temporary ceasefire. There are two central issues that matter in this Bill. Will it enable Britain to de-carbonise the electricity supply sector by 2030, without which we […]
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‘Energy is what I say it is’ said the Mad Hatter to Alice
May 31st, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Can you believe a single word they say? The government’s new Energy Bill published last week was proclaimed as enabling the UK to “move away from high carbon technologies” (i.e. coal, oil and gas). The Bill says that to meet the government’s statutory commitment to cut greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050, electricity plants must […]
