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Cameron Speech: Cold comfort for action on climate change

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Commenting on David Cameron’s speech (Wednesday 1 October 2014) today at the Conservative party conference, Friends of the Earth campaigner Donna Hume said:  “David Cameron claimed Britain is leading on climate change, but in the next breath pledged new oil rigs.
 
“The Prime Minister doesn’t get it – we need to get off our addition to dirty fossil fuels and shift to renewable energy that will generate thousands of jobs and bring our bills under control.
 
“Ministers must stop giving a leg up to dirty energy, including reckless and short-sighted fracking.”
 
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Notes to editors:
 
1.   Last month Prime Minister David Cameron told a New York Climate Change Summit that “Climate change is one of the most serious threats facing our world”.

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