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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

Illustration: Sam Falconer 
issue 16 September 2023

Last week there should have been a great victory for the British turbine industry. 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. The government and the renewables lobby hoped that a successful auction would show that wind power could compete with fossil fuels.

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Kate Andrews is deputy editor of The Spectator’s World edition.

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