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Britain reject tough CO2 cut target for power sector

2013-06-04 12:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: MPs on Tuesday rejected an amendment to the coalition government's Energy Bill which would have locked the power sector into tough carbon cuts from 2014, two years earlier than planned, and limited new gas plants being built after 2020. Britain wants to explore the potential of shale gas to stem its rising dependence on imported gas and the vote comes just one day after it was estimated that its shale gas resources could be a lot higher than previously thought. The amendment proposed that the...

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