UK climate and energy policy: hypocritical or incompetent? | Craig Bennett
by Craig Bennett from Environment | The Guardian on (#V03K)
Renewable energy 'must stand on its own two feet' yet subsidies for nuclear and fossil fuels continue unabated, and energy efficiency policies are axed with no thought as to what might replace them
It's difficult to decide which characteristic best describes the government's approach to climate and energy policy since 8 May; hypocrisy or incompetence.
If that seems harsh on a day when the energy secretary has announced a phase-out of coal, the most polluting of fossil fuels, then let me explain.
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