An 80% cut is the right goal but have we the will to make it happen?

10th October 2006
By Dr Alister Scott

The first thing to say is that the review lacked ‘doing words’ — it failed to tell us much about what the government actually intends to do. The government’s energy review was significant in several ways. By re-opening the question of energy policy only three years after the previous white paper, government was signalling that it was not happy with current policies. Fears around energy security and a putative ‘energy gap’ were the main grounds for having…