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- Queen’s Speech — Debate (4th Day) (14 May 2013)
Lord Crickhowell: ...waste our limited resources on forms of renewable energy that are never going to make more than a miniscule contribution. The madness of continuing to encourage the construction of high-cost, onshore wind farms that devastate the landscape should be self evident but, sadly, the madness persists. There are plans to ignore public opinion and to do immense damage to a great area of mid-Wales...
- Jobs and Business (10 May 2013)
Jim Fitzpatrick: ...application with the Secretary of State and I wish them well with that, because Green Port Hull is a very important piece of our shipping infrastructure, and is important for the development of wind farms in the North sea. It will be extremely important, and it is one of the projects that we want to see progressing as quickly as possible. To try to catch up on what had been happening...
- Energy Generation (17 April 2013)
Michael Weir: ...was also made by Dong Energy. As the hon. Member for Brent North said, it saw 2020 as a cliff edge for investment. Given the long-term commitment required, that is a serious drawback. Offshore wind has, I believe, a strong and vibrant future. There are plans to install up to 10 GW of capacity in Scottish waters over the next decade, including three projects off the coast of Angus in my...
- Growth and Infrastructure Bill: Report (2nd Day) (12 March 2013)
Lord Berkeley: ...legislated for it to be removed. The two applications are, first, the Able marine energy park on Humberside, which I believe to be one of the proposed land ports for the development of offshore wind farms-farms which I suggest will be quite important within the next year or five in ensuring that we have enough electricity to keep the lights on-and, secondly, the proposed Fieldes Lock power...
- Public Bill Committee: Energy Bill: New Clause 7 - Extension or operation of renewable energy in Wales (7 February 2013)
Albert Owen: ...has strong support, and would introduce important changes on consent. I know that the Minister has voiced his support for local accountability and for communities to be involved when it comes to wind development, for example. The new clause would help that. It would free up the planning system and make it easier for wind farms to be developed offshore and onshore up to 100 MW in Wales. I...
- Backbench Business — New Nuclear Power (7 February 2013)
Edward Davey: ...support is being provided must take account of the material circumstances. It is not a mechanical exercise; it is a matter of sensible judgment. It is obvious that the characteristics of a small onshore wind farm are very different from those of a large offshore wind farm and, indeed, those of a nuclear plant. The obvious example is that an offshore wind turbine is expected to last for...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Planning Bill: Second Stage (22 January 2013) See 1 other result from this debate
Alex Attwood: ...give you the example of Clare County Council, which I always quote. Eighty per cent of the Republic of Ireland's land mass is now covered by development plans. That has been achieved in about 10 years. Serious mistakes and worse clearly arose during that period. The tribunal confirmed that there was irregularity, corruption and criminality. So, when you...
- Public Bill Committee: Energy Bill: Clause 6 - Direction to offer to contract (22 January 2013)
Gregory Barker: ...how we would support community energy generation within the FIT scheme, and we have already defined community energy installations in the FITs order. FITs community energy projects, such as wind farms or hydropower, now benefit from tariff guarantees, which allow communities, particularly when they are endeavouring to put together a larger project, to have certainty about the tariff that...
- Public Bill Committee: Energy Bill: Examination of Witnesses (15 January 2013)
...that none of the existing technologies, particularly in the renewables technologies, can crack climate change as they are. We need new technologies. There is no possibility that we can build enough wind farms or solar panels of current technology around the world to make much of a dent on actual global warming. It does not mean that they are not desirable in different locations; we need...
- Charities Act 2011 (Amendment): Energy Bill (19 December 2012) See 2 other results from this debate
Alex Cunningham: ...energy is around 13.4%, but we are third bottom of the EU renewable energy league table, and our renewables contribution is just 3.3%. Other countries have built the capacity for manufacturing wind turbines and solar panels, so much so that Germany and Holland in particular are picking up billion pound contracts for British offshore wind farms while British companies are excluded by the...
- Bills Presented: Planning Act 2008 (Amendment) (12 December 2012)
Phil Wilson: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Planning Act 2008 to exempt planning applications for onshore wind farms producing 50 megawatts or more; to provide that they be referred for decision to local planning authorities; and for connected purposes. I am pleased to report that County Durham has played more than its part in the development of renewable energy. The...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Wind and Nuclear Power (3 December 2012)
John Hayes: ...and a final delivery plan by end of 2013, subject to Royal Assent on the Energy Bill. The Department's assessment is that the length of the feed in tariff with a contract for differences (CfD) for wind farms should be 15 years. This provides an appropriate balance between minimising the overall costs of the CfD to electricity consumers, ensuring that the CfD scheme is affordable, and...
- [Mr David Amess in the Chair] — Humber Economy (Fiscal Support) (27 November 2012)
Alan Johnson: ...opportunity presented by the emerging renewables sector. The Humber is at the forefront in developing biomass power generation. It has significant potential for tide and wave power, but offshore wind power provides the most significant and immediate advantages. Siemens chose the Humber as its preferred location to site a multi-million pound investment in a manufacturing and final assembly...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members' Business: Energy Strategy (20 November 2012)
Sandra Overend: ...commend him on the progress that he has made to date. I also want to mention the relevance that the motion has for agriculture. Renewable energy should help to diversify incomes for farmers and the wider rural economy. In this context, I am very pleased to see growth in small-scale wind and anaerobic digestion projects on farms across Northern Ireland. The...
- Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill — Second Reading (14 November 2012)
Lord Mitchell: ...'s reply to the Oral Question asked this morning by my noble friend Lady Worthington. The Government's reply was all over the place and, even now, I do not know whether they do or do not support onshore wind farms. As I say, my brief is SMEs. We all know how important they are to our future growth, but also how often they lose out from government initiatives and from public-sector...
- Public Bill Committee: Growth and Infrastructure Bill: Examination of Witnesses (13 November 2012)
...some of the things that we have heard, it depends on the type of application. For example, within our membership we have companies that are involved in the installation of renewable energy—wind farms, and so on. In that particular case, the kind of statutory consultees that they are going to come up against are the likes of Natural England, the Environment Agency and so on. But...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Adjournment: Planning Applications: Foyle (6 November 2012)
Alex Attwood: ...councils continue to be a collection of planning lobbyists — legitimate though that is — and other councils live up to the threshold of being the planning authority driving forward plan-led development. That is only one aspect of what I am trying to do in the Department, namely to have the most radical reshaping of planning in a generation. That is what the...
- Onshore Wind Turbines (Lincolnshire) (6 November 2012)
Don Foster: ...outcome. I want to pick up one other crucial point that my hon. and learned Friend raised, and that is community benefit. We are as a Government keen to explore how our approach to onshore wind can be more localist. There are many examples, such as Baywind in Cumbria and Westmill farm in Oxfordshire, where local people receive financial returns from wind farms, but in many cases local...
- Business of the House: Growth and Infrastructure Bill (5 November 2012) See 2 other results from this debate
Jonathan Edwards: ...station that would generate 49 MW is decided on by Welsh local planning authorities, but those generating 51 MW or more must be decided on by the Secretary of State in Whitehall. The Pen y Cymoedd wind farm in south Wales, for example, will generate an estimated 250 MW, so the decision to grant permission for it was made by the Secretary of State in Westminster, not the democratically...
- Business of the House (1 November 2012)
Angela Eagle: ...may we have an urgent statement from the Chancellor on what the Government are doing to implement the report’s recommendations? The Conservative Energy Minister said this week about onshore wind farms that “enough is enough”. Hours later, up popped his boss, the Liberal Democrat Secretary of State, to announce the opposite. For good measure, a “source” told...