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UK: Industry protests at climate policy costs
Financial Times (UK) ^ | August 2, 2011 | By David Blair, Energy Correspondent

Posted on 08/02/2011 8:13:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

British industry has reached a “tipping point” where the burden imposed by energy and climate change policies will begin to jeopardise jobs and investment, according to the EEF manufacturers’ association.

The government has significantly underestimated the extra cost of these measures, it added.

“UK Industry was already facing energy bills which made them uncompetitive before the substantial additional burden of the unilateral carbon price floor,” said Steve Radley, director of policy at the EEF. “We have now reached a tipping point where the cumulative burden of UK climate change policy will make it uncompetitive for some sectors to invest and create jobs in the UK.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: climagegate; failure; globalwarming; hoax; socialism
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1 posted on 08/02/2011 8:13:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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As if that hadn’t been the whole point of all those eco-stalinist schemes to begin with.
2 posted on 08/02/2011 8:23:32 AM PDT by cartan
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Climate change policy in the UK and Australia should not be about the cost. It’s about the morality of worshiping a false science god. The cost to reduce pollution can be fruitfully debated all day long. The cost to pacify a fringe infection of climate extortionists will always be too high.


3 posted on 08/02/2011 8:26:45 AM PDT by bossmechanic (If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
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Climate change policies enacted by man and governments are like enacting water control policies to make it less wet.

Only true wordsmithing liars can sell the idea that natural meteorological and geological phenomenon are things which man can alter.

If the claim could be made that gravity is lessening due to man-made activity, and you threw enough grant money out there to scientists to prove it, we'd all be wearing magnetic boots in a year to avoid drifting off into the atmosphere.

4 posted on 08/02/2011 8:26:54 AM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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The UK windmills were a joke last winter and when they did spin they produced squat. The EU Carbon Credit scam is falling apart. People do not want to see their electric rates ‘necessarily skyrocket’. If enough people don't rise up in massive protest against this lunacy then they deserve every pain they'll get.
5 posted on 08/02/2011 8:32:43 AM PDT by JPG (Yes she can!)
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6 posted on 08/02/2011 4:28:06 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
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UK GDP growth has averaged about 0.6% per year over the past decade. Sure took them a long time to figure out that secure, low-cost and reliable energy prices influence GDP growth rates.


7 posted on 08/02/2011 7:10:42 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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8 posted on 08/03/2011 12:35:59 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (It's the Tea Party's fault!)
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