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Green ‘Stealth Tax to Encourage Wind Farms and Nuclear Power Will Hit Poor the Hardest’
Wednesday, 29 June 2011 08:31
‘A green ‘stealth’ tax to encourage new wind farms and nuclear power plants could push tens of thousands of households into fuel poverty but do nothing to reduce emissions.
The carbon floor price, announced in the March Budget, could even end up giving climate policies a ‘bad name’, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has warned.
To be introduced in 2013, the tax is intended to encourage investment in low-carbon energy – and raise billions for the Treasury.’
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