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Dear All, As part of the campaign to protect the feed in tariff and try to push back the date for the changes come into effect a group of us have come together to run a campaign called "Cut don't kill". We are hoping that the letter below will be published in the Times on Monday morning - and that your name will be at the bottom of it. We already have 50 companies signed up and I hope we will have 150 by the time it is submitted on Sunday morning.
It needs to be signed by all CEOs / MDs of solar companies and they must their details to me by Saturday 10pm for inclusion: Their Name, Job Title and Company name. Please address the emails with the title: Letter to the times.
Please feel free to circulate the letter below to all your contacts however, if you could all collate your contacts responses into one email that would be a great help to me as my email has gone out to the entire STA list on this already! We need help with funding for the www.oursolarfuture.org.uk cut don't kill campaign - it is really gathering pace and starting to have an impact. There are quite a number of companies funding it already (most have contributed £3K) and we really need another ten to chip in also to continue keeping the pressure up - if you want more info on what the campaign team have been up to please come back to me. It essential we keep hitting the PR and PA activity on this hard in the coming weeks or we will be facing further cuts and more struggle in the coming months and years - so please dig in and contribute in whatever way you can.
Apologies if you have had this and replied already
Thanks and all the best
Howard Johns
Letter as follows:
Sir – The Government’s proposal for a cut of more than 50% to Feed-in Tariffs would destroy the UK solar industry - one of the brightest hopes for green growth in the British economy. The Tariff has been very successful in the past 18 months, helping the industry grow to 4,000 companies employing 25,000 people.
The support it provides was always intended to taper away as the cost of technology falls, and we accept the need for some cuts to take place. But a cut on this scale would kill the solar sector outright. Britain has thrown away thriving renewables industries in the past – for what was meant to be “the greenest Government ever” to repeat that mistake would be a national disgrace. This is a skilled industry with huge economic potential, a large workforce and a crucial part to play in meeting the UK’s emissions targets. Killing it off would be short-sighted and irresponsible in the extreme.
What’s more, our industry has been given just five weeks’ notice to prepare for this savage cut.
We call on the Prime Minister to honour his commitment to being green and getting Britain growing again.
Cut the tariff, but don’t cut it so deeply that it kills our industry.
Please send e-mail to [email protected]
Dear All, As part of the campaign to protect the feed in tariff and try to push back the date for the changes come into effect a group of us have come together to run a campaign called "Cut don't kill". We are hoping that the letter below will be published in the Times on Monday morning - and that your name will be at the bottom of it. We already have 50 companies signed up and I hope we will have 150 by the time it is submitted on Sunday morning.
It needs to be signed by all CEOs / MDs of solar companies and they must their details to me by Saturday 10pm for inclusion: Their Name, Job Title and Company name. Please address the emails with the title: Letter to the times.
Please feel free to circulate the letter below to all your contacts however, if you could all collate your contacts responses into one email that would be a great help to me as my email has gone out to the entire STA list on this already! We need help with funding for the www.oursolarfuture.org.uk cut don't kill campaign - it is really gathering pace and starting to have an impact. There are quite a number of companies funding it already (most have contributed £3K) and we really need another ten to chip in also to continue keeping the pressure up - if you want more info on what the campaign team have been up to please come back to me. It essential we keep hitting the PR and PA activity on this hard in the coming weeks or we will be facing further cuts and more struggle in the coming months and years - so please dig in and contribute in whatever way you can.
Apologies if you have had this and replied already
Thanks and all the best
Howard Johns
Letter as follows:
Sir – The Government’s proposal for a cut of more than 50% to Feed-in Tariffs would destroy the UK solar industry - one of the brightest hopes for green growth in the British economy. The Tariff has been very successful in the past 18 months, helping the industry grow to 4,000 companies employing 25,000 people.
The support it provides was always intended to taper away as the cost of technology falls, and we accept the need for some cuts to take place. But a cut on this scale would kill the solar sector outright. Britain has thrown away thriving renewables industries in the past – for what was meant to be “the greenest Government ever” to repeat that mistake would be a national disgrace. This is a skilled industry with huge economic potential, a large workforce and a crucial part to play in meeting the UK’s emissions targets. Killing it off would be short-sighted and irresponsible in the extreme.
What’s more, our industry has been given just five weeks’ notice to prepare for this savage cut.
We call on the Prime Minister to honour his commitment to being green and getting Britain growing again.
Cut the tariff, but don’t cut it so deeply that it kills our industry.
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