Ministers and their EU colleagues are on the cusp of a decision which could undermine our energy security, push up the cost of power and weaken efforts to tackle climate change.
Surely he's already realized that giving a XL handout to Big Oil and the Koch Brothers, who are actively working to undermine our clean energy future, isn't something Massachusetts voters would support?
Swirling south of here, in a gulf between the Americas, a crisis is brewing and already affecting the livelihoods of millions of people, threatening food and energy security, and undermining our nation's reputation regionally.
"There is no way I could support any move which undermined our effort on either energy efficiency or fuel poverty," he told the Sunday Telegraph.
That's an enormous problem - and one that can undermine our country's progress toward energy security, carbon reduction and job creation.
And it would be ironic if the G7's refusal to assist Ukraine in developing a peaceful nuclear-energy sector undermined our independence.YURIY KOSTENKOMinister for Environmental Protection and Nuclear SafetyKievGas bubbleSIR--What is it about oil and gas that makes otherwise sensible people lose their wits ("Power play", March 22nd)?
As the Treasury and Decc fought it out over energy policy last week, Tim Yeo, the chairman of the Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee, accused Mr Osborne of undermining green energy policy, ahead of the Government's Energy Bill this autumn, to please backbench Tory MPs.
Subsidizing natural gas supports fossil fuel development while undermining renewable energy.
Shorten accused the government of undermining renewable energy by sending mixed messages over the RET's future.
At the same time, the northern Sinai has devolved into a lawless outpost where saboteurs have repeatedly bombed a pipeline funneling natural gas to Israel, undermining its energy supply.
