Breitbart: Britain's Former Environment Minister Abandon Carbon Targets and Embrace Shale and Nuclear

Former Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has called for Britain to abandon is carbon targets, saying that renewable energy cannot help Britain meet its energy needs and only a combination of shale gas, Combined Heat and Power and more, smaller nuclear power plants can provide renewable energy for the foreseeable future in Britain.

Speaking to the Global Warming Policy Foundation in London, Paterson also derided wind farms, saying that Britain's wind energy policy is the "single most regressive policy we have seen in this country since the Sheriff of Nottingham," calling it: "The coerced increase of electricity bills for people on low incomes to pay huge subsidies to wealthy landowners and rich investors."

He added that it was "immensely costly, regressive and damaging to the environment", and has had virtually no impact on carbon emissions. Paterson also said that many of the forecasted effects of climate change have been "widely exaggerated".
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