Lights out? Amber Rudd's disastrous absence of an energy strategy

The Ecologist
Nov 18, 2015, 9:41 am65 pts
Amber Rudd's speech today exposes her total failure to assemble a coherent energy strategy, writes Oliver Tickell. It reveals the increasingly certain failure to meet EU renewable energy targets, proposes a new tax on wind and solar generation, and leaves the country facing the real prospect of lights going out…

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