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Miliband's speech on the economy - Greenpeace response

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6 September, 2012

This morning Labour leader Ed Miliband used his speech on the economy at the London Stock Exchange to attack the Chancellor George Osborne for “posing the environment and the economy as alternatives.” 

Responding, Greenpeace’s executive director, John Sauven, said: 

“George Osborne must stop holding back Britain’s low-carbon businesses. Everybody from the CBI to the Labour leadership to green groups are now urging him to back these growing industries. 

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Greenpeace comment on government PFI lending plans

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Responding to government plans to lend billions of pounds to PFI projects, Dr Doug Parr of Greenpeace said:

"Brown has forked out hundreds of billions of pounds to bail out the banks. Now he's found billions more to widen the M25.

"But the 21st Century industries and technologies, that will actually create sustainable new UK jobs, have so far been ignored.

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