But Unite warns that Labour has ‘missed a golden opportunity to bring the national grid under public ownership’
THE government announced plans for a new era of “clean energy” today.
Labour has pledged to create a 95 per cent low-carbon electricity grid by the end of the decade.
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband described the transition as the “social justice fight of our time” and that it aimed to shield working people from the “ravages of global energy markets.”
New measures will deregulate to speed up planning decisions on critical infrastructure and give ministers, rather than local councils, the final say on approving large projects such as onshore wind farms.
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Just Stop Oil, which has 16 members serving a combined 41 years of jail time over protests demanding an end to oil and gas, said: “Whatever the Labour Party does, the world is going to pass through 2°C of heating in the 2030s.
“To pretend that ‘clean electricity’ will protect us from the consequences of this is to lie to, and to betray the British people.
“The predicament we find ourselves in needs the Labour Party to change everything to defend our values and hard won rights.
“It requires us to mobilise the country as if going to war, and the starting point is planning to end oil and gas extraction and use by 2030, while adapting our villages, towns and cities to the weather extremes coming our way.”
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