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Ukip will repeal the Climate Change Act binding the UK to reduce carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 if elected in the general election in May.
In an interview with The Independent Ukip MEP Roger Helmer, Ukip’s industry spokesperson, described predicted rises in global temperature as “climate alarmism” and said that the link between global temperature and atmospheric Co2 levels was “hugely open to question”.
Helmer said subsidies for green energy were an expensive waste of money that increased the cost of electricity production.
He also said that although prime minister David Cameron has not lived up to his pledge to lead ‘the greenest government ever’ he has been sufficiently green to “do huge damage”.
Helmer said the big six were being treated as scapegoats by the three main parties for high energy prices, saying: “We’ve imposed a whole series of obligations, subsidies and allowances, which is extraordinarily complex and vastly anticompetitive and it loads very heavy costs on to the industry.”
He added that Ukip would be in favour of fracking and that shale drilling should be started to determine the level of oil and gas in the ground that could be extracted.
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