Now we have the green unilateralists. It is embodied in Government policy by the Climate Change Act that imposes legal requirements on the UK concerning CO2 emissions that apply regardless of the rest of the world. Forcing energy-using industries to migrate abroad cannot make sense however convinced you might be that global warming is a reality. Artificially forcing up energy prices is indeed a tipping point for many companies. The Government should heed the warning from manufacturing industry. —Harry Phibbs,
The Daily Mail, 3 August 2011
Chemical industry leaders are on the warpath over the UK government’s latest assessment of the scale of the energy-cost rises facing the sector. “Policy measures such as these … will threaten [the chemical industry’s] contribution to the greening of the UK economy and do very little to signal the UK as a competitive place to invest,” CIA chief executive Steve Elliot warned. --
The Engineer, 3 August 2011
Manufacturers are lobbying for more than £470m in compensation from the taxpayer for having to swallow four green levies by the end of the decade. If the Government were to give in to the manufacturers' demands, an even greater burden of paying for new nuclear and wind farms would fall on the taxpayer. --Rowena Mason,
The Daily Telegraph, 3 August 2011
OPPOSITION Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey said last night he would consider disbanding the Department of Climate Change if the Coalition were to win the next election. --
Sid Maher, The Australian, 4 August 2011
