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‘We’ve cut carbon emissions by decimating working-class communities’: the leader of the GMB union on the folly of net zero

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61% Informative

Auctions were held for offshore wind power, asking companies to bid for the right to supply electricity at 44 per megawatt hour a third of the price offered eight years ago .

Now there will be no bids for the next round of licences because the wind industry can’t afford to put up the projects.

GMB is one of the biggest union donors to the Labour party .

The GMB general secretary is critical of net zero and the Tories ’ approach to it.

But he is broadly positive about the future of green energy and sees Hinkley Point as a success story.

Smith also detects a kind of snobbery in the green agenda in green agenda.

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67

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66

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50

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informal

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English

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35

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not offensive

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short-lived

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