Government finally admits it is subsidising nuclear - while cutting help for renewables
by Damian Carrington from on (#R8R3)
The official admission blows a hole in already bewildering UK energy plans, which back the failed and expensive over the cheap and successful
The government confirms that it is not continuing the 'no public subsidy policy' [for nuclear power] of the previous administration.
That little footnote, tucked away at the end of the announcement of Wednesday's French-Chinese deal to build a new nuclear power station at Hinkley point, detonates an atomic bomb under the UK government's already bewildering energy policy and leaves ministers hunkered down in a nuclear bunker.
