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The Chancellor’s vision of a UK “gas hub” that would reduce costs for
consumers has backfired, with new analysis showing households are paying more
for gas than they should be because of the way UK to Europe pipelines are being
run (1).
Two interconnectors link UK and European energy markets. They’re supposed to
benefit consumers by ensuring gas flows from the lower priced market to the
higher priced market.
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Responding to today’s second
reading of the Energy Bill, Greenpeace Senior Energy Campaigner Louise Hutchins
said:
“George Osborne’s fixation
with gas is clearly not washing with MPs who want to protect their constituents
from rising energy bills.
“Avoiding a growing
dependence on gas and international gas price shocks is a no brainer, while
cleaning up the power sector will bring new jobs and growth to constituencies
across Britain, so it’s no wonder MPs across the spectrum are lining up to
support a 2030 decarbonisation goal in the Bill.
Posted by Richardg — 5 December 2012 at 3:34pm
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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.
Posted by petespeller — 14 November 2012 at 3:44pm
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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.
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Posted by Richardg — 18 October 2012 at 5:24pm
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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.
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The UK’s leading environmental organisations have written to Chancellor George Osborne following reports that he views parliamentary climate change campaigners as the ‘environmental Taliban’.
The letter from John Sauven, Executive Director of Greenpeace, Andy Atkins, Executive Director of Friends of the Earth; Mike Clarke, Chief Executive of RSPB and David Nussbaum, Chief Executive of WWF-UK says:
Dear Chancellor
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Posted by petespeller — 13 September 2012 at 6:10pm
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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?
