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Is the Treasury trying to wreck the green economy?

18 July 2012 •

In forcing DECC to delay changes to renewables subsidies the Treasury is damaging the industry - Number 11 must now explain its thinking to UK Plc

To quote the great John Cleese in that peerless evocation of the British psyche, Clockwise: "It's not the despair. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand." I imagine that after yesterday the...

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