Monday, May 28, 2012

Britain's climate change policy is going up in smoke

Guardian: Energy policy in the United Kingdom looks like a jam factory hit by a meteorite: a multicoloured pool of gloop studded with broken glass. Consider these two press releases, issued by the Department of Energy and Climate Change last week. Tuesday: the government's new energy bill will help the UK to "move away from high carbon technologies". Wednesday: applications for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea have "broken all previous records". This is "tremendous news for industry and for the...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/28/energy-policy-up-in-smoke
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/5/28/1338231397496/Daniel-Pudles-2805-008.jpg

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