Industry leaders hoping to get financial aid over the energy crisis had their hopes dashed on Sunday as the Treasury denied having been in talks with the Department for Business. A source from the Treasury told The Epoch Times that there have been no such talks, contradicting what Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said during an earlier interview. Speaking to Sky News on Sunday morning, Kwarteng said he had been speaking to “government colleagues, particularly in the Treasury,” to figure out what can be done to help energy-intensive industries. On the BBC’s “The Andrew Marr Show,” Kwarteng also said he had been working “very closely” with Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak. “I’ve not asked for billions. We’ve got existing schemes, I’m working very closely with Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, to get us through this situation,” he said. While individual consumers are protected from soaring European gas prices by a government-imposed retail price cap, energy-intensive companies have found …