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Feb 4 2008
In response to today's announcement from the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group that a legally-binding target for tackling fuel poverty in England for vulnerable groups by 2010 will not be met, Ed Matthew, Green Homes Campaigner for Friends of the Earth said:
“Despite having a legally-binding duty to eliminate fuel poverty, the numbers suffering have doubled in the last five years. This shocking fact is a consequence of the Government comprehensively failing to protect vulnerable households from energy price rises.
"High levels of insulation and the use of zero-carbon technologies could help to permanently cut household energy bills by up to two thirds. But the Government's programme for tackling fuel poverty has been piece meal and consistently under-funded. A tough new approach is urgently needed to protect one of the most vulnerable groups in society and seize one of the easiest opportunities to cut climate changing emissions.”
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