Offsetting Tds' Trips Is Just a Lot of Hot Air

Daily MailJune 30, 2008

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OFFSETTING Government flights will ease the conscience of the Green Party, but little else. It is another expensive victory of environmental ideology over common sense and the taxpayer.

Having grown accustomed to footing large travel bills for ministers and their entourages, taxpayers will now pay twice for every flight. As well as the initial bill, the payment to 'offset' carbon increases the cost of official travel at a time when budgets everywhere else stand to be pruned.

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Offsetting Tds' Trips Is Just a Lot of Hot Air

Even if you accept the science behind environmental alarmism-though thousands of scientists inconveniently do not - ministers who a...

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