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Greenpeace Response to Chancellor’s Multi-Million Pound Hand-Out to Oil and Gas Industry

Last edited 7 September 2012 at 10:44am
7 September, 2012

Responding to news today that the Chancellor George Osborne has given the oil and gas industry a multi-million pound hand-out, Dr Doug Parr, policy director at Greenpeace, said:

“It doesn’t look like Osborne cares one little bit about a true British growth sector, or about our planet. Our clean energy sector accounted for a third of all growth in the last year. Yet this massive hand-out to his polluting mates is yet another obstacle thrown in the path of Britain’s green industries.

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Greenpeace Response to Osborne's Multi-million Pound Gas Hand-out

Last edited 25 July 2012 at 11:13am
25 July, 2012

Responding to news today that Chancellor George Osborne is set to hand-out half a billion pounds in subsidies to the gas industry, Doug Parr, head of policy at Greenpeace, said:

“Osborne’s going to hand over hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money to the polluting and pricey gas industry. This is clearly bonkers, for economic and environmental reasons.

Article tagged as: climate change, gas, george osborne, renewable energy, treasury, wind

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.

Article tagged as: energy, energy bill, gas, george osborne, renewable energy, wind

Pensioners and environmentalists unite over fuel poverty winter deaths outrage

Last edited 22 November 2011 at 1:54pm
22 November, 2011

Today activists from Greenpeace and the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) joined forces outside Parliament to challenge George Osborne to take urgent action to end fuel poverty as official figures showed there had been 25,700 excess winter deaths in 2010/11.

To bring the shocking reality of freezing homes to George Osborne’s attention, Greenpeace and the NPC created a life sized ice covered living room, on St Margaret’s Street, right outside parliament.

Commenting on the joint action, John Sauven, Executive Director of Greenpeace said:

Article tagged as: climate change, energy, energy efficiency, fuel poverty, george osborne

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Why are the oil companies complaining?

Posted by Richardg — 18 April 2011 at 4:41pm - Comments
Cairn's tugs drag icebergs out the way of its Arctic oil drilling rig
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Cairn's tugs drag icebergs out the way of its Arctic oil drilling rig

Ever since last month’s Budget, oil companies have been complaining about George Osborne’s tax on North Sea oil and gas. Yet many have just announced record profits - boosted considerably by current sky-high oil prices. What do they take us for?

Article tagged as: budget, cairn, cairn energy, climate change, conservatives, Encore, EnQuest, exxon, george osborne, green investment bank, Nautical Petrolem, politics, renewable energy, shell, Statoil, Valiant Petroleum, Xcite Energy

'Greenest government ever' keeps us addicted to oil and other dirty energies

Posted by jamie — 24 March 2011 at 4:32pm - Comments

So yesterday's budget was from the self-proclaimed 'greenest government ever', but was it the greenest budget ever? How could it be, when it has done nothing to break our addiction with oil, hobbled the Green Investment Bank before it's even started, and provided a windfall for nuclear power.

Article tagged as: budget, climate change, george osborne, green investment bank, politics, renewable energy

Budget 2011 - Greenpeace response

Last edited 25 March 2011 at 5:29pm
22 March, 2011

Key environmental points in budget:

  • Scale and scope of the Green Investment Bank
  • Details surrounding the introduction of a new floor price for carbon
  • Changes to transport policy – fuel duty and APD

Overarching view:

Executive director of Greenpeace, John Sauven, said:

Article tagged as: budget, climate change, george osborne, oil, renewable energy, transport

The one bank we really should be saving

Posted by jamess — 17 December 2010 at 11:17am - Comments

HBOS? Bailed. Lloyds TSB? Done. RBS? I'll get my chequebook. Green Investment Bank? Erm, no thanks.

The only bailing being done by today's government is on its green promises, and one stands out bigger than the rest: the commitment to establish a Green Investment Bank.

Article tagged as: chris huhne, climate change, george osborne, green bank, green investment bank

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