Grant Shapps has pushed back against reported proposals to increase the number of onshore windfarms as the government prepares to unveil its energy security strategy next week
The government’s long awaited energy strategy has the potential to kill two birds with one stone.
Firstly, there’s the money - with tensions over the cost of building nuclear reactors and worries over the tax black hole that a move to electric vehicles will leave.A mooted move towards more onshore wind appears to have been stopped in its tracks amid cabinet disagreements and worries about the electoral impact of possibly plonking turbines on the green and pleasant lands of Tory-held seats.
Shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds told Sky News' Ridge on Sunday programme that the Labour party supports more investment in nuclear energy to help"I think the danger is that, frankly the individual commissioning decisions on nuclear reactors all depend on the price you can achieve - they can be very expensive if you haven't been able to get the right deal and the right private sector partners to do that.
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