Results 1-8 of 8 for climate change speaker:Michael Clapham
- Blacklisting (Construction Industry) (23 Mar 2009) has video
Michael Clapham: ...have some responsibility to ensure that the working practices of the 1930s have no place in our modern construction industry. I hope that the Minister will take action to encourage the industry to change. I want to make four brief points. The first is about the impact on the health and safety culture of the industry, and the second is about the climate of fear that discrimination creates....
- Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (3 Dec 2008) has video
Michael Clapham: ..., we cannot ignore the technology, because we require it for the future. We need to combine it with a grand scheme, and that is why I want the Under-Secretary to ask his colleague the Energy and Climate Change Minister to consider a project proposed by Yorkshire Forward. Yorkshire Forward has a plan to develop carbon capture and storage on a grand scale. The project would capture all the...
- Business of the House: Topical Debate — Energy Providers (16 Oct 2008) has video
Michael Clapham: ...to 1992. Since then, energy has been part of the integrated remit of the DTI. That has taken the focus away from some of the real issues, so it is good that we now have a Department of Energy and Climate Change. I want to concentrate on two things. The first is the increase in energy prices, especially gas prices and the knock-on effect on electricity prices. There are now just six energy...
- Orders of the Day: Energy Bill (22 Jan 2008) has video
Michael Clapham: ...review, he would have seen quite clearly where it had come from. The Government's energy policy is based on four planks. The first is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and to help to reverse climate change. The second is energy security. The third, as my hon. Friend the Member for Sherwood (Paddy Tipping) said, is to ensure that heating and lighting can be provided to residents at...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform: Coal Mining (11 Oct 2007) has video
Michael Clapham: ...carbon capture and storage projects. The Government are going to help with a demonstration plant, but we need more such plants if we are to ensure that such technology will be available to tackle climate change. If we are to tackle that problem, the transference of such technology has to be involved. Will the Minister ensure that we will be likely to see more than one demonstration plant...
- Security of Supply (12 Jan 2006)
Michael Clapham: ...of international disputes put us in a very vulnerable position. I therefore hope that during the review, the Minister will look seriously at the question of how we move forward. One driver will be climate change, which will be the big issue for the Minister to examine when he considers all the factors that impact on the review. As was pointed out in strong terms by my hon. Friend the...
- Energy Review and Coal (11 Jan 2006)
Michael Clapham: ...when the review is completed, so that it can play its part in ensuring the security of supply of UK energy. During the review, the Minister will need to consider the impact of the energy mix on climate change, the retention of a diversity of suppliers, to which my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire, North referred, and the security of supply. Having watched events during...
- Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill (27 Jan 2003)
Mr Michael Clapham: ...the proposal to privatise in 1996. It was discernible that the Tory party had decided to privatise British Energy despite removing it from the privatisation package in 1990 because the economic climate had changed. It had introduced the non-fossil fuel levy, which obliged specific suppliers to buy energy from a nuclear source, and the nuclear levy. The latter paid for the nuclear industry....