Responding to Lord
Deben’s letter to Energy Secretary Ed Davey calling for 2030 decarbonisation target to be written in to the Energy Bill, Greenpeace Energy Campaigner Leila Deen said:
“Lord Deben echoes the concerns of hundreds of UK businesses and investors – without a goal in the Energy Bill to remove carbon from our electricity sector by 2030, green jobs and investment will be lost, the UK will become dangerously dependent on gas and consumers will pay the price.
“George Osborne has done his best to block the 2030 goal. He thinks it’s sufficient that the Government 'may’ introduce a goal in 2016. But his own colleague Tim Yeo knows this won’t work and is standing up for jobs and businesses with an amendment that’s gaining cross-party support from Labour, Tory modernisers and the Lib Dems. Billions of pounds of investment and stable household bills rest on Yeo’s amendment becoming law.”
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