Reacting to the publication by Ruth Kelly of a Planning White Paper, Greenpeace Director John Sauven said:
“The government wants to give the rubber stamp to the wrong projects. Ministers are diluting democracy and saying they know best, but a glance at their performance on climate change over the last decade shows how wrong they often are. This White Paper is clearly intended to open the door to new nuclear power stations and airports, which will take the UK’s fight against climate change backwards. Given the urgency of the problem, this White Paper should have supported low carbon and renewable energy technologies that are of benefit to both local communities and the wider environment and could be generating clean energy in the near future.”
This week will see the publication of an Energy White Paper, delayed following a successful Greenpeace judicial review. For a full media briefing on the Energy White Paper see:
www.greenpeace.org.uk/energyreview
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