Via a correspondent, Greenpeace's latest mailing, about Tim Yeo's efforts to secure a decarbonisation target in the Energy Bill and put our fuel bills up even higher:
This is massive. So far, 267 MPs have shown support for clean electricity after more than 20,000 of us emailed them over the past 10 days. 326 is our target - a majority of Parliament. It's not going to be easy, but we can do this.
We’ve got Conservative, Labour and Green MPs to support this critical amendment to the Energy Bill - the one that will clean up our electricity for the next 30 years. But here's the shocker: despite some promises only a single Liberal Democrat MP has signed it so far.[1] Just one! To get that vital majority we need to get Lib Dem MPs on side.
Please donate just £20 towards our 'Fighting Fund' so we can continue to lobby Lib Dem MPs on the ground.
The deep irony is that the Liberal Democrats were the original champions of the zero-carbon target in the Energy Bill. Only 5 months ago the whole party voted to support it.
The upcoming Lib Dem spring conference - when party members get together - is a huge opportunity to pressure them to stick to their principles. We need your support so we can take the strongest possible message - Greenpeace style - into the heart of their meeting. Please contribute what you can to help.
Let's get the Lib Dems to sort it out and join all of us who realise that if there's one issue bigger than politics, it’s climate change. Let's keep that pressure on,
Pete and the Energy team
Greenpeace
[1] Julian Huppert - Liberal Democrat MP for CambridgePS Last year, 21 people from No Dash for Gas shut down a gas power station for a week. Now its owner, EDF, is suing them for £5 million - a day's profit for this massive company but a lifetime of debt for the activists. EDF is trying to stamp out protest and we can’t let that happen. Please take a moment to help No Dash For Gas by signing their petition here.
It's hugely encouraging that so few LibDems have signed up for the "lights out" amendment. Surely they can't have found their collective backbone?