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Foreign firms derail fuel poverty plan

                   
guardian.co.uk
30-Aug-2008
        
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Britain's foreign-owned energy suppliers are sabotaging a new £1bn fuel poverty package which Gordon Brown wants to announce this week, The Observer has learnt. The government wants to tax the windfall profits that the Big Six suppliers have made from the European emissions trading scheme. But German-owned suppliers Eon and RWE, the French group EDF and Spanish-owned Scottish Power refuse to fund the new... [read full story]                    

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31-Aug-2008
        

By David Litterick The Government was involved in frantic negotiations with Britain's energy suppliers yesterday to salvage a deal aimed at tackling fuel poverty. Gordon Brown had hoped to announce an initiative this week...

                   

European energy firms scupper fuel poverty plan

guardian.co.uk
30-Aug-2008
        

Britain's foreign-owned energy suppliers are sabotaging a new £1bn fuel poverty package which Gordon Brown wants to announce this week, The Observer has learnt. The government wants to tax the windfall profits that the...