Tuesday 01 Jul 2008 @ 15:57
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Rural Advocate welcomes UK Renewable Energy Strategy Consultation
Stuart Burgess, our chair and the Government's Rural Advocate, welcomes the launch of BERR's UK Renewable Energy Strategy Consultation:
"We fully support the government’s renewable energy targets and we believe that the proposed renewable energy strategy is fundamental to reducing climate change. "
"But we also passionately believe that renewable energy schemes must strike the right balance between competing interests. We wish to see rural communities contributing positively to international and national targets to reduce greenhouse gases. However, we must consider appropriateness of scale and impacts to the social, economic and environmental fabric of the countryside.
"We're passionate about moving toward sustainable rural communities. In my meetings across England I have met little resistance to Government efforts aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. "
"Indeed rural communities are enthusiastic supporters of Government’s proactive stance on renewable energy. The only ─ and consistent ─ caveat that communities cite is in relation to scale and accruing benefit. "
"Communities want renewable energy but also energy schemes that are produced at an appropriate scale to community need and that will benefit their local environment. It's vital that communities feel involved in these complex and sensitive decisions.”
"We fully support the government’s renewable energy targets and we believe that the proposed renewable energy strategy is fundamental to reducing climate change. "
"But we also passionately believe that renewable energy schemes must strike the right balance between competing interests. We wish to see rural communities contributing positively to international and national targets to reduce greenhouse gases. However, we must consider appropriateness of scale and impacts to the social, economic and environmental fabric of the countryside.
"We're passionate about moving toward sustainable rural communities. In my meetings across England I have met little resistance to Government efforts aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. "
"Indeed rural communities are enthusiastic supporters of Government’s proactive stance on renewable energy. The only ─ and consistent ─ caveat that communities cite is in relation to scale and accruing benefit. "
"Communities want renewable energy but also energy schemes that are produced at an appropriate scale to community need and that will benefit their local environment. It's vital that communities feel involved in these complex and sensitive decisions.”
