Responding to the Government’s decision today (Tuesday 23 October 2012) to postpone plans to cull badgers, Friends of the Earth’s senior political campaigner Liz Hutchins said:
 
“The self-professed ‘greenest Government ever’ might make fewer mistakes on its environmental policies if it adopted an evidence-based, rather than ideological approach, to policy making.
 
“Ministerial plans to cull badgers and buzzards were severely undermined by the partial use of facts to suit certain interests.
 
“The forthcoming Energy Bill is a crucial test of the Government’s scientific credibility – will it listen to its climate expert’s call for our power system to be decarbonised by 2030, or give the go-ahead to George Osborne’s reckless dash for gas?”

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