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Electrification: one rule for road, another for rail

Tony Bolden, Littlehampton, West Sussex BN16
04 August 2017
 

What a dismal, short-sighted decision on rail electrification the Government’s High Level Output Statement (HLOS) for England and Wales turned out to be. Only a few weeks ago the Committee on Climate Change’s report exhorted the Government to act more swiftly and urgently to bring greenhouse gas emissions down by 2030 by increasing, amongst other things, the share of electric vehicle sales and with it, by implication, the consumption of fossil fuels. 

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