Queen secretly lobbied Scottish ministers for climate law exemption
by Rob Evans, Severin Carrell and David Pegg from Environment | The Guardian on (#5MP58)
Monarch used secretive procedure to become only person in country not bound by a green energy rule
The Queen's lawyers secretly lobbied Scottish ministers to change a draft law to exempt her private land from a major initiative to cut carbon emissions, documents reveal.
The exemption means the Queen, one of the largest landowners in Scotland, is the only person in the country not required to facilitate the construction of pipelines to heat buildings using renewable energy.
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