Revealed: The EU's great green U-turn on policy that is
sending energy bills soaring across the continent 
 
The European Union is quietly taking steps to shred the
‘green agenda’ responsible for rocketing energy bills across the continent.
It is now urging members to restore Europe’s competitiveness
by ‘fracking’ for cheap natural gas from shale, instead of pushing ‘renewable’
energy subsidies which cost consumers billions of pounds.The policy shift was unveiled last week at a
Brussels summit attended by David Cameron 
 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331077/Revealed-The-EUs-great-green-U-turn-policy-sending-energy-bills-soaring-continent.html

 

Britain calls for EU target to halve emissions by 2030
 
Britain has challenged Europe to sign up to an ambitious
target of cutting carbon emissions by 50 per cent by 2030.
Ed Davey, the Climate Change Secretary, called on fellow EU
governments to sign up to the target as part of a global climate agreement in
2015.
The proposal marks a shift in the UK's position after
internal coalition wrangling over climate change. The British government wants
the EU to agree to 40 per cent reduction of carbon emissions from 1990 levels,
with an "ambition" for it to be extended to 50 per cent when the
agreement is reached in two years. 

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/britain-calls-for-eu-target-to-halve-emissions-by-2030-8632395.html 

 
Ed Davey says UK will oppose EU renewable energy target
 The UK will push for the EU to adopt a legally
binding target to cut its collective greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 50
per cent by 2030, it emerged on Saturday. But it will not back what it believes
would be an “inflexible and unnecessary” renewable energy goal for the same
year  
 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/904121cc-c569-11e2-af7a-00144feab7de.html