Former Labour Secretary of State for the Environment Michael Meacher MP speaks at Vestas rally outside the DECC in London
The rally outside the Department of Energy and Climate Change in Whitehall on Thursday evening started in light rain, but it was pouring by the time it finished. Despite the weather, the 80 or so present listened intently to speeches from a Vestas worker, trade union speakers from the RMT, PCW and Billy Hayes of the Communications Workers Unions, as well as former Labour Secretary of State for the Environment Michael Meacher MP and Green Party GLA member Jenny Jones, who arrived at the event by bicycle. Despite the government having spent thousands of billions propping up the banks it is unwilling to put up the much smaller amounts needed to support green industries. The problems of Vestas are indeed very much of the Government's making, with its failure to put it's money where its mouth is on green energy policies, relying on hot air rather than support for wind power and other alternative energies.
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Location: Whitehall Place, London, England, UK
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