Budget 2014: Carbon Price Floor row to overshadow new green investment

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Renewables industry warns heavily trailed decision to freeze carbon price floor could see £4bn of clean energy investment put at risk

Green business leaders typically approach George Osborne's Budgets more in hope than expectation, anxious the Treasury is more likely to deliver nasty surprises for the green economy than it is to nurture...

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