energy

Responding to Energy Minister John Hayes' attack on wind farms, Greenpeace Energy Campaigner Leila Deen said:

“John Hayes’ petulant outburst adds to the Coalition’s growing energy shambles and to a deepening divide within Government between those who care about green growth and the economy and those who just want more oil and gas.

Here is a new minister veering off brief and publicly contradicting his bosses. His comments threaten jobs and his approach will drive up energy bills.

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

Responding to the EU Commission’s proposals today to limit the use of biofuels in transport, John Sauven, Executive Director of Greenpeace said: 

“The EU Commission’s decision to put a limit on the use of crop-based biofuels is a step in the right direction. 

“The growing use of transport fuels from crops has driven up food prices, led to more deforestation in places like Indonesia to grow palm oil for fuel, and made climate change worse as a result. 

Responding to David Cameron’s party conference speech, Greenpeace’s political advisor Joss Garman said:

“David Cameron rightly described the challenges facing this country. Why then has he allowed the UK to slip in the global green energy race? Why has he allowed uncertainty to stymie crucial investment in clean technologies? Why is he happy for the “greenest government ever” to change colour? It’s a sink or swim moment for green growth in the UK. Billions of pounds of investment rest on the PM offering his backing for decarbonisation of the electricity sector by 2030.”