Renewables firms attack DTI over grant fiasco

Green power firms are laying off staff because the government has shut its Low Carbon Buildings Programme from March 1 to 'sometime in May', after previous complaints about unreliable funding, mocking the government's green claims. The LCBP was meant to provide up to 50% grants for solar, wind and ground-source heat pumps. "This is an astonishing way to treat a fledgling industry" said Friends of the Earth.