The government’s claim to be main a solar revolution is a bad joke when it is instead pursuing ideological warfare against ‘green crap’ The government wasted no time after the election in killing the country’s onshore wind power sector and is now taking its wrecking ball to the solar industry,despite the call from the energy and climate change secretary, Amber Rudd, and only months ago for a “solar revolution”.
Her claim,repeated this week, that this is the greenest government ever, and is a bad joke. The problem is that the Tories’ actions,far from pushing down electricity prices, will push them up. They are playing politics with our money. Related: Swansea Bay tidal energy scheme strives to generate waves of optimism Related: Panasonic criticises 'damaging' cuts to solar panel subsidies Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com