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Caron Lindsay

Nick Clegg’s e-mail to party members: The myth: green versus growth

By Caron Lindsay | Wed 11th April 2012 - 6:55 pm

Nick Clegg has been promoting his new deal with the six biggest energy companies which will mean that every consumer will receive a statement every year telling them if they’d be better off on a different tariff and how to change things. It’s part of what seems to be a strategy to debunk the idea put about by George Osborne and the Tory right that you can’t be green and have a growing economy at the same time. It makes sense that if we use our resources carefully, costs come down and that benefits everybody, business, consumer and the environment. …

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