The Manx government is set to abandon its ambitious green energy target – after admitting it will be impossible to achieve in time.
Now instead of a commitment to have 15 per cent of energy generated from renewable sources by 2015, it’s proposing to follow an EU target of cutting greenhouse gases by 80 per cent from 1990 levels by the year 2050.
Green campaigners have expressed their dismay.
Phil Corlett of Isle of Man Friends of the Earth said: ‘We are bitterly disappointed that the 15 per cent electricity from renewables by 2015 policy unanimously voted through by Tynwald members has just been shelved. It is pretty shocking really.’
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