Huw Irranca-Davies laments feed-in tariff "tragedy"

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Shadow climate minister lays into coalition over proposed cuts to solar feed-in tariff incentives

The coalition's plans to impose deep cuts on all large solar installations caught everybody by surprise, not least the opposition. Labour initially appeared uncertain of how to respond in the immediate...

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