People: the missing bit in the government's energy plans

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David Powell of the New Economics Foundation argues there is a community-shaped hole in the government's energy vision - and fracking-shaped blot on the horizon

George Monbiot may accuse it of being a sheep-wrecked wilderness, but I still find the countryside around Eckington, Derbyshire, to be stunning. The former coal-mining town looks out across green, rucked-carpet...

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