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Lib Dems want benefit change review
2013-09-16 20:23:14| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Lib Dem activists back a review of a key housing benefit change but narrowly reject calls for the top rate of income tax to rise.
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United Kingdom: Lib Dems' green boast under threat as party votes for nuclear
2013-09-15 21:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Liberal Democrats have embraced nuclear power for the first time in their 25-year history on the grounds that it will help Britain tackle climate change. In a historic reversal of policy, hundreds of members on Sunday voted in favour of accepting a "limited" role for atomic power plants in a safe and affordable way. Grassroots Liberal Democrats appeared to be in a pragmatic mood as they also backed the leadership over the controversial issues of tuition fees and fracking on the second day...
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United Kingdom: Lib Dem president Tim Farron warns fracking could harm countryside 'for decades'
2013-08-03 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: In the first major attack on fracking by a leading member of the Coalition, Tim Farron, the Lib Dems' president, said he was "greatly worried' by the Government's "dash for shale gas' and that he would lobby for measures that would severely limit its potential development. Mr Farron's views clash strongly with those of Ed Davey, the Energy Secretary and a fellow Lib Dem. Mr Davey has said he is "excited' about the secure supply of energy and thousands of jobs that shale-gas extraction could create....
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United Kingdom: Lib Dem president backs decarbonisation target
2013-03-24 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Liberal Democrat president, Tim Farron, has raised the prospect that his party is privately negotiating to reopen the green energy deal signed by the coalition last autumn in an attempt to introduce carbon reduction targets for the energy sector. Lobbying has intensified over an amendment to the energy bill due to be tabled by Tim Yeo, the Conservative chairman of the energy select committee, calling for a decarbonisation target for the energy sector for 2030. The energy secretary, Ed Davey...
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United Kingdom: Davey urges Lib Dems to honour decarbonisation target deal
2013-03-06 14:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Ed Davey has today warned that it would be wrong of his Lib Dem colleagues to reject an agreement brokered between the two coalition parties and vote for a cross-party amendment that would force the government to introduce a decarbonisation target for the power sector from next year. Responding to questions at an event hosted by The Building Centre in London, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary said he had sympathy for the amendment that has been tabled by Conservative MP Tim Yeo and Labour's...
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