What shade of green?

Headlines I'd heard before reading this article talked of the UK Government bailing out the car industry but the emphasis here seems to be as much on investment in 'green technology'. On the surface that looks good but I can't really tell what shade of green Mandelsson is referring to. And what connections are there here to Obama's announcements of a couple of days ago? .....mentioned here. The UK could so easily have re-routed it's industrial base to go the way of Denmark with developing green energy technologies (specifically wind turbines) many years ago. Good to see more happening on this front now but a shame more didn't happen earlier. The too little too late tone of the Independent article could apply as much to the investment in green technology as to the bail-out. But I guess hindsight is a wonderful thing and we must start from here.