Posted by kcumming — 4 March 2013 at 12:50pm
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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.
Was it when Chancellor George Osborne called us the environmental Taliban? When he announced he wanted to build 40 new gas-fired power stations and turn the UK into a “gas hub”? When he was revealed in our undercover investigation as trying to dismantle the Climate Change Act? When he rolled out the red carpet for fracking companies across England? Or when he vetoed a 2030 goal in the Energy Bill for carbon free electricity?
Responding to Conservative MP Tim Yeo's amendments to the Energy
Bill, which would see carbon removed from the UK’s electricity sector by 2030,
Greenpeace Energy Campaigner Leila Deen said:
“George
Osborne thought he’d buried the plan to clean up our electricity sector and
cleared a path for his dash for gas. That Tim Yeo has tabled these amendments,
and is backed by hundreds of businesses, investors and civil society groups, is
yet another signal that the Chancellor is out of touch on this issue.
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.
A joint briefing from Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, RSPB, WWF and the Association for the Conservation of Energy
The Energy Bill will shape the energy sources used to power Britain for the next forty years. Over £100 billion investment is now needed over the next decade as a fifth of our older power plants face closure and neglected infrastructure is upgraded. What they are replaced with will have long-standing consequences for the future competitiveness of the economy, energy prices and consumer bills.
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.
The government has finally published the long-awaited Energy Bill. There's much to like, but it's still missing that vital commitment to clean electricity.
If a year is a long time in politics, then 2016 is a lifetime away. Yet the government has decided not to commit the UK to clean electricity until after the next election.
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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