Results 1-20 of 36 for climate change speaker:Robert Key

Rivers (England) (13 May 2009)

Robert Key: ..., over-widened and sometimes over-narrowed. They simply have not been looked after properly. If we are to look after our rivers properly, river restoration is a huge programme facing our nation. Climate change is also important in that regard. It will not be felt for perhaps another 30 or 40 years, but mark my words, by then the salmon population will be negligible and there will be no...

Rivers (England) (13 May 2009)

Robert Key: ...are very serious issues, which are linked to the question of the nil-grazing of stock. If we nil-graze stock such as Holstein cattle, we will feed them on imported soya, which in turn gives rise to climate change issues elsewhere in the world. This is a global issue that is related not only to rivers in this country. I invite the Minister to address those other factors. Control of mink is...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy (5 May 2009)

Robert Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many and what proportion of homes he estimates will be supplied with electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy (5 May 2009)

Robert Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many and what proportion of homes are supplied by electricity from renewable energy sources.

Royal Assent: Defence in the UK (26 Mar 2009) has video

Robert Key: ...power stations. While the politics of energy may dominate in our part of north-west Europe, there are other parts of Europe where the politics of water and food is increasingly important. As the climate change crisis climbs the political agenda, carbon emissions will threaten peace and stability. Poverty and economic migration already cause great friction between states—the day of...

Royal Assent: Defence in the UK (26 Mar 2009) has video

Robert Key: I fear that I am not in a position to be able to answer that. If I could change places with the Minister after the general election, doubtless I would find many Chinooks flying operationally. I saw, however, that real progress has been made on that programme, and there is a huge determination on the part of the work force at Boscombe Down to ensure the highest standards of workmanship. People...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Tidal Power: River Severn (26 Feb 2009)

Robert Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change for what reasons seabed mounted marine turbines were not included as an option for consideration to meet requirements for renewable energy generation in the Severn estuary.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Tidal Power: River Severn (25 Nov 2008)

Robert Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what topics are under consideration by the Severn tidal power strategic environmental assessment steering group; and if he will place in the Library the topic papers under consideration by the group.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Electricity Generation: Wind Power (20 Nov 2008)

Robert Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the annual (a) percentage of active generating time achieved and (b) total amount of electricity generated by micro-wind turbines allowed under the permitted development planning regime.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: River Severn: Tidal Power (11 Nov 2008)

Robert Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when the next (a) parliamentary and (b) regional forums on the River Severn tidal energy project will be held.

Business of the House: Defence in the World (8 May 2008) has video

Robert Key: ...provide adequate resources for them to carry out their role, which we admire so much. That occasion gave me an opportunity to remind the Tisbury branch of the Royal British Legion that defence has changed enormously since the operational requirements to defend our country in the second world war or to fight for other people elsewhere in the world. That is one arm of our capability in...

Point of Order: Defence Procurement (9 Oct 2007)

Robert Key: ...South China sea, and perhaps we should turn our attention more to the north-west passage and the implications for trade routes between China, Japan and Europe via the north of Canada resulting from climate change, and the international tensions that are building over that situation. However, we are talking about things that touch the lives of every citizen every day, but they do not...

Mtas: Cross-border Issues (6 Jun 2007)

Robert Key: In discussing with the First Minister his proposals for climate change legislation, will the Secretary of State ensure that the First Minister is fully aware of the controversial cross-border issues that will arise over proposals for the Severn barrage? Will the Secretary of State and the First Minister ensure that before they proceed they visit the barrage de La Rance at St. Malo, where they...

Points of Order: Defence in the World (1 Feb 2007)

Robert Key: ...the homeland. Some people thought that that was all over after the allied victory in the second world war. The slaughter in Northern Ireland rarely spilled over to us on the mainland. However, 9/11 changed all that. The Conservative party called for a dedicated homeland security Minister some years ago. The Government now look as though they might oblige by splitting the Home Office in...

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Rising Sea Levels (24 Jan 2007)

Robert Key: ...and sinking land masses? The hon. Member for Lewes (Norman Baker) described the circumstances in the Pacific, but those areas that are just 5m above the sea are in fact not influenced very much by climate change. It is a geological phenomenon in the Pacific that causes those atolls to sink. What really matters, of course, is what happens to the people, whether as a result of rising sea...

Orders of the Day — Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill — Order for Second Reading read. (11 Nov 2005)

Robert Key: ...hon. Gentleman for giving way so soon. Does he agree that local authorities have a vital role to play? Some of them, including, I am sorry to say, my own district council, think that if there is a climate change problem, it has to do with sunspots and nothing to do with the intervention of man. Therefore, they are reluctant to support the Bill, a consequence of which will be increased...

Tackling Climate Change (12 Oct 2005)

Robert Key: ...new initiative, will my right hon. Friend not forget to bring on board local government? He said that housing has not been a tremendously good example of how we can save energy and contribute to climate change. I asked a major developer who was constructing part of the largest industrial development in my constituency, Solstice park, near Amesbury, "Why haven't you got greener buildings?"...

Debate on the Address: [First Day] (17 May 2005)

Robert Key: ...immigration, low tax and accountability—that was fine—but they also wanted to discuss a great deal else that simply did not feature in the national campaign. They wanted to talk about climate change and the environment, waste and recycling, housing, science—my constituency has a large science base—education, the rural economy and farming. They even wanted to talk...

Debate on the Address: [First Day] (17 May 2005)

Robert Key: ...the putting of safety first, was that they had persuaded themselves as a nation that they had a moral duty, first, to clean up the mess of previous nuclear generations and, secondly, to address climate change in a grown-up way, and to accept that in a no-carbon economy generated by nuclear energy, that is a moral position to adopt. It is preferable to high imports, even of natural gas, let...

Global Warming and Climate Change (18 Jan 2005)

Mr Robert Key: ...the Government were not removing the figures, that is precisely what they were doing. When they sought to delete from the draft spring 2005 European Council conclusions 21 words that would secretly change policy on global warming and climate change—in the UK and throughout the EU—they were tampering with 21 words that could literally change the world. I hope the Minister will...