This is entry number 177, first published on 18 October 2010, of
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Today's entry reports on the launch of a second round of
consultation on energy National Policy Statements.
The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has launched
a second round of consultation on the six energy National Policy
Statements (NPSs) this morning. The consultation closes on 24
January 2011.
The changes reported last week after the consultation website
inadvertently became visible for a while have come to pass. Here
are links to the documents and a summary of the changes. In most
cases, the changes to the NPSs reflect updates already made to
policies since the first drafts were published in November 2009.
The change that made headlines last week, however, the dropping of
two of the ten
