EU EXPERT GROUP CALLS FOR CONTROLS ON ENERGY WASTING SUBSIDIES
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLPUBLIC subsidies paid to the polluting energy producers, such as coal-fired power stations, should be screened for promoting environmental damage, an influential European Union (EU) expert group has proposed.The EU's High-Level Group on Energy, Competitiveness and the Environment, which includes EU Commissioners, national government representatives, and executives from European industry, unions, non-governmental organisations and regulators, said "subsidies must serve the common interest", or be phased out.Its paper, which will feed into ...
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