Brown doesn't do Green!
June 25, 2008 5:15 PM
Commenting on Gordon Brown's announcement of new investment in renewable energy sources, Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment Secretary, Steve Webb said:
"With Britain lagging near the bottom of the European renewables league table, it is hard to believe Gordon Brown's talk of a 'green revolution'.
"The fundamental problem is that Brown doesn't do 'green'. He would rather urge oil producers to extract more oil than invest in technologies that will actually save CO2 emissions now.
"When the Government has failed so lamentably to take a political lead in the last 11 years, why should we believe the coming years will be any different?
"Many other European countries have achieved far more on renewables by giving people incentives to generate their own power. So-called feed-in tariffs have been highly successful in countries such as Germany, yet the Government blocked an attempt by its own side to include these in the recent Energy Bill."
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