Sunday, September 23, 2012

United Kingdom: Tory 'Tea Party tendency' putting green energy jobs at risk, warns Ed Davey

Guardian: Tens of billions of pounds of investment in low-carbon, job-creating energy infrastructure projects that are "ready to go" could be lost to Britain because of an anti-green movement that is sweeping through the Tory party, the Liberal Democrat energy secretary warns today. In an interview with the Observer, Ed Davey describes a "Tea Party tendency" among Conservative MPs who question climate change and green investment as "perverse", and says it is creating deep uncertainty for an industry that...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/23/tory-tea-party-threat-green-energy-jobs?newsfeed=true

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