Letter on Carbon Audits and Tory Councils

Letter sent to the Times, Guardian and Independent, and printed in a slightly different format in today's Coventry Evening Telegraph:

David Cameron’s call for a “carbon audit office” – which would act as a watchdog for specific year-by-year requirements for carbon cuts – sounds very nice. But it’s hard to believe him when Conservative-controlled councils, like mine in Coventry, are not putting this into place. Each month, statistics could be updated on Conservative council websites up and down the country to show their use of petrol, natural gas and electricity. Yearly, councils could put information, from all of their activities, into carbon audit reports. We need less national Camerhetoric and more local action.

Scott Redding
Coventry Green Party