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Clegg and PM at odds on green levies
2013-10-24 11:39:34| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says he does not agree with the prime minister's bid to "roll back" green levies pushing up energy bills.
United Kingdom: Green energy levies: how much do they cost and will they be cut?
2013-10-23 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: What are the "green charges" that David Cameron wants to roll back? These are extra costs levied on household gas and electricity bills to pay for low-carbon energy sources such as windfarms and solar panels. The government has always insisted the charges will help cut energy bills in the long run by reducing Britain's dependence on fossil fuels at the same time as helping to tackle climate change. They currently make up 9% of household bills and are projected to make up 14% by 2020. What are the...
United Kingdom: How David Cameron is preparing to disappoint everyone on "green levies"
2013-10-23 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: David Cameron caused a furore at Prime Minister's Questions today by declaring that "we need to roll back some of the green regulations and charges". Leaving aside the wisdom of such a spectacular U-turn from a Prime Minister who once declared people should "vote blue, go green", the key question is whether such a move will work, both politically and economically. On both fronts the answer is a categorical no. As I've argued previously, axing green levies will do little to help those struggling...
China avoids fresh levies in latest EU solar subsidy probe
2013-08-08 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The European Union has decided against imposing fresh import levies on Chinese solar panels, as part of an ongoing subsidy investigation that aims to determine if Beijing policies are creating a glut of cheap components on the market. The European Commission launched a 13-month investigation into Chinese solar subsidies late last year, which is running concurrently with another inquiry into potential dumping of Chinese solar panels in European markets below cost price. The anti-subsidy investigation...
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Germany Levies Max Fine Against Google; Max Fine Is Piddly
2013-04-23 19:26:57| TechNewsWorld
Dramatic rhetoric, tiny fine. German data regulators fined Google less than $190,000 for collecting information from unsecured WiFi networks while it compiled data for Google Street View. The data scoop was, according to Germany's data chief, "one of the biggest known data protection violations in history." The fine? Hardly the biggest in history.