New documents that have been leaked reveal that the British government has been trying its best to dilute the potency of new European renewable energy and carbon emission targets, despite professing to be “the greenest government ever.”
In a move backed by the UK’s six biggest energy firms, British officials have been constantly trying to prevent the approval of new EU rules on energy efficiency, and try to alter them to make them voluntary rather than mandatory; they have also repeatedly blocked EU efforts to adopt new renewable energy targets.
This news is at odds with the common position that the government are trying to push within the UK; that they are in favour or renewable energy, and have actually proposed a green energy bill which they believe could generate £110bn in investment in low-carbon and efficient energy infrastructure, in a move that they call the biggest shakeup of the market since privatisation in the 1980s.
