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United Kingdom: There's nothing wrong with low-carbon policy that strong government can't fix
2013-05-05 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer: The UK's energy policy is not "plausible" and a "crisis" is inevitable. That is the view of Peter Atherton, a respected utilities analyst who works for Liberum Capital, an investment bank in the City. Atherton is convinced that successive UK governments have grossly underestimated the engineering, financial and economic challenges posed by the planned move from a high-carbon electricity sector to a low-carbon one. He believes that the cost of switching from largely coal- and gas-fired power...
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