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Why the Chancellor must abandon the Carbon Price Support

Tony Lodge - 21 November 2012 - Energy

 

  • It will penalise UK industry, and lose UK jobs and investment (particularly in manufacturing industry)
  • It will add £25 a year to average UK fuel bills and drive 30,000 to 60,000 households into fuel poverty
  • It will not have a significant impact on overall carbon emissions
The proposalThe UK is currently part of ...

Davey joins the table in the Coalition's gamble with UK energy policy

Tony Lodge - 24 May 2012 - Energy

Writing in the early May edition of Liberal Democrat News the new Lib Dem Energy Secretary, Ed Davey, declared, “I was astonished to learn that we still get around a third of our electricity from coal and those power stations are coming to the end of their life, as are ...

A response to Tim Yeo

Lord Lawson - 11 April 2012 - Energy

Following on from our online debate "Is there a valid economic case for 'going green' in an 'age of austerity'?", Lord Lawson hits back at Tim Yeo in the final part of the debate.As President of the Renewable Energy Association, described on its website as “The voice of the renewables ...

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