IT HAS taken no time at all for the Conservatives to about-face from promising ‘the greenest government ever’ to deciding to ‘cut the green rubbish’.

Proposing a savage cut in payments for solar panels is bad news for homes, schools and businesses in Oxford.

Subsidies to people with solar panels cost a tiny £3 a year on top of everyone’s electricity and gas bills, including of course residents with solar panels.

The Government is blithely ignoring our planet’s rush towards a huge two per cent average increase in temperatures.

We all have to move away from fossil fuels like oil and gas and get into renewable energy. Making it more difficult for people to make the switch to low carbon is downright irresponsible. How exactly will the country cut its carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050?

But in Oxford it will take more than Tory penny-pinching on solar panels to stop people generating their own energy directly from the sun.

The BMW car factory, the Oxford Bus garage, city council tenants in Rose Hill, schools across the city and many more, are tackling climate-change with their solar panels.

John Tanner (Labour Cllr)
Board Member for a Cleaner, Greener Oxford
City Councillor for Littlemore & County Councillor for Isis
Sunningwell Road
Oxford