George Osborne

We're fracking George Osborne's village green!

Posted by kcumming — 4 March 2013 at 12:50pm - Comments

Under the guise of newly-formed fracking company Frack & Go, we've arrived en masse in the picturesque town of Knutsford in George Osborne’s Tatton constituency, to give local people a taste of what might happen if George gets his dash for gas and fracking goes ahead locally.

The alternative Autumn Statement

Posted by Richardg — 5 December 2012 at 3:34pm - Comments

This morning, the Chancellor George Osborne gave his Autumn Statement. People on Twitter say he's launched a dash for gas that would wreck our climate targets and make us the Dirty Man of Europe all over again.

#Energygate: What we found and why it matters

Posted by petespeller — 14 November 2012 at 3:44pm - Comments

Today we’ve exposed explosive evidence of the lengths to which some Conservative Party MPs will go to sabotage progress on climate change. We’ve uncovered a plot to dismantle the Climate Change Act and one Tory MP involved in trying to manipulate a by-election to push his own anti-wind agenda.

Dear George Osborne, #greenisworking! Love, everyone.

Posted by Richardg — 18 October 2012 at 5:24pm - Comments
Green Is Working event at the treasury
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Deborah Meaden joins Stop Climate Chaos Coalition and supporters outside the Treasury to tell the government #GreenIsWorking

Yesterday, I joined 249 other people from green businesses, development charities, trades associations, green groups and the Women's Institute outside the Treasury. We'd come to tell the government that the green economy is working.

Time to stand up to Osborne

Posted by petespeller — 13 September 2012 at 6:10pm - Comments
Middelgrunden offshore windfarm in Denmark
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Middelgrunden offshore windfarm in Denmark

The government's climate change advisors yesterday announced that George Osborne's plans to pave the way for a new generation of dirty, expensive gas power could be illegal, but will the Lib Dems stand up to him now?

It's crunch time for the climate

Posted by Richardg — 23 July 2012 at 10:08am - Comments
New wind turbines are constructed at the Butterwick Moor Wind Farm.
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New wind turbines are constructed at the Butterwick Moor Wind Farm.

The Chancellor’s assault on our climate must stop. It’s time for David Cameron and Nick Clegg to intervene and stop him.

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