Just another day in the Commons - where we merrily destroy the PV sector with spin

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Howard Johns of the Cut Don't Kill campaign takes the microscope to this week's debate on solar feed-in tariffs

Anyone working in the solar industry will have been appalled, dismayed and almost certainly angered to watch the debate on their future and the feed in tariff that took place in the House of Commons this...

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