Following a tip-off from WorkinProperty (another new kid on the construction blogging block) I followed the proceedings here. Not sure how long the chat will stick around so I’ve cut and paste it below the break for reference. It was hard to determine how many of the questions were pre-picked and how many were ‘live’. Some of the answers seemed fairly polished with links peppered through them but others were definitely more on the hoof. It’s a good way to guage the government’s perspective of what puplic opinion is on various issues – as the discussion was moderated, those questions which were more relevant (or answerable) will probably have been chosen (they had a few hundred to choose from and only an hour to answer them).
Topics covered include recycling (I covered recent figures on Leeds here), lightbulbs, plastic bags, food, carbon allowances (DEFRA’s rough guide available here (pdf, 41pages) and the RSA’s working paper came out today (pdf, 7 pages)) and nuclear energy.
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