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Energy subsidies: £3.8bn Most public handouts to energy firms are not widely acknowledged, according to a recent House of Commons environmental audit committee report.
Andrew Pendleton, head of campaigns at Friends of the Earth, said it was a disgrace to offer handouts to polluting energy firms when the rest of Britain was being told to tighten belts.
Instead we're likely to see the industrialisation of tracts of the British countryside, gas flaring in the home counties and a steady stream of trucks carrying contaminated water down rural lanes". Andrew Pendleton, head of campaigns at Friends of the Earth, said it was a disgrace to offer handouts to polluting energy firms when the rest of Britain was being told to tighten belts.
Adding to what in reality is an anti-jobs agenda are 21st century anti-infrastructure abominations like net neutrality proposals on communications networks, and green energy handouts.
In the leader we say:By one count, such handouts [energy subsidies] led to extra consumption that was responsible for 36% of global carbon emissions in 1980-2010.We repeathehe figure elsewhere in the issue.
Ending those handouts would make solar energy an even better bargain by comparison.
Help Keep America First ask your elected officials to invest in infrastructure & clean energy -- not handouts to Big Oil!
Osborne is cutting investment in clean energy while giving handouts to highly polluting businesses, pandering to the delusions of the green growth deniers.
Instead, it is time to phase out all energy subsidies and handouts.
And even with recent cuts in pollution reduction goals and renewable energy standards and handouts of carbon credits to energy utilities -- meant to alleviate concerns of committee members from coal-rich states -- the bill would still achieve emissions reductions equivalent to taking half a billion cars off the road, says the EPA.
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