Julie Elliott MP, Labour’s Shadow Energy and Climate Change Minister, commenting on RWE’s decision to drop its plans for the Atlantic Array offshore wind project, said:

“David Cameron’s failure to support clean energy is putting vital new investment at risk and jeopardising the country’s future energy security. It might keep Tory backbenchers happy when David Cameron says he wants to ‘drop the green crap’, but the Government’s attacks on green energy are scaring away firms that want to invest and create jobs in Britain. 

“Labour would set a clear decarbonisation target to give businesses the confidence to invest in our energy infrastructure.”

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