Plans to drop a scheme to replace gas boilers with hydrogen alternatives could leave the UK population facing bitterly cold winters, GMB Union has warned.
Andy Prendergast, GMB National Secretary, said:
“Abandoning hydrogen for home heating will potentially leave the UK population facing bitterly cold winters.
"Hydrogen is one the few viable green technologies that can achieve net zero and save hundreds of thousands of union jobs in communities from one end of the country to the other.
"At the exact moment the US and EU are pouring money into hydrogen, we are pulling support, leaving us at the gates whilst others race ahead.
“There are serious questions as to how we can heat homes, how we can provide energy security and how we can fight the climate crisis.
"The Government seems happy to leave a vacuum that others will fill.
“Grant Shapps may well be remembered as modern day Nero: fiddling aimlessly whilst the earth burns.
“Future generations will not forgive him.”
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