Press release
Financial boost for offshore wind
20 October 2011
Responding to Government plans announced today (Thursday 20 0ctober 2011) to increase subsidies for offshore wind farms, Friends of the Earth's energy campaigner Paul Steedman said:
"After months of uncertainty, this announcement should encourage investors to reap the UK's huge wind, wave and tidal potential and help wean the nation off its costly fossil fuel addiction.
"But continued support for planet-wrecking biofuels and funding cuts for onshore wind schemes casts a dark shadow over the Government's commitment to clean British energy.
"Ministers must ditch plans to slash incentives for small-scale renewable energy - households and communities should be given more encouragement to free themselves from the shackle of the Big Six energy firms by creating their own green energy."
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Notes to editors
1. Government press release on renewables: http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/news/pn11_85/pn11_85.aspx
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Last modified: Oct 2011
