Renewable Energy
Oral Answers to Questions — Energy
Mr Paul Flynn (Newport West)
Does the Minister agree that if the ancestor of the hon. and learned Member for Colchester, North (Sir A. Buck) tried to build a windmill today, he would find it almost impossible because of obstacles placed in his way by the Government, as the people developing Mynydd Cemaes in mid-Wales are finding? Why have the Government not applied to the EC for continuing favoured treatment for renewables after 1998? Do they still not realise the enormous potential of renewables to provide us with energy from sources which are free, British, benign to the human habitat and eternal in their duration?