Results 1-11 of 11 for climate change speaker:John Thurso

Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism: UK Manufacturing (9 Jul 2009) has video

John Thurso: ...else's production? We must not lose the opportunity; the threat is that things will go elsewhere. I make a plea to the Government, and I am meeting Ministers at the Department of Energy and Climate Change to put this point: the Government should play the co-ordinating role that will make sure that at this early stage the bits are joined up so that the opportunity is realised. The second...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Carbon Emissions (1 Jun 2009)

John Thurso: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will seek to reduce the level of carbon dioxide emissions from his Department by siting its data centres in the UK in the north of the UK.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Government Departments: Carbon Emissions (15 May 2009)

John Thurso: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what mechanism exists for the co-ordination of measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from Government Departments' data centres.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental ICT (13 May 2009)

John Thurso: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the level of carbon dioxide emissions from ICT systems operated by his Department; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power Stations: Decommissioning (17 Dec 2008)

John Thurso: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the resource budget costs of nuclear decommissioning provisions by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11; and if he will make a statement.

Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day]: Economic Performance and Business (21 Oct 2008) has video

John Thurso: ...the first of which is the fact that most overdraft facilities, although granted for a year, are repayable on demand. I have seen evidence in my constituency of companies whose facilities are being changed at 24 hours' notice. I ask the Government to stipulate in a protocol with the banks that there should be a 28-day minimum period, at least to give companies the ability to renegotiate,...

[Mr. Mike Weir in the Chair] — UK Atomic Energy Authority (9 May 2007)

John Thurso: ...will hear a different view from my Front-Bench colleague, my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge (David Howarth). I believe that nuclear power may prove to be the least worst option in addressing climate change, and it is one that should certainly not be ruled out. The legacy of the UKAEA's work at Dounreay is some of the best scientific and engineering work that has taken place in the...

Part 7: Clause 13 — Rates (3 May 2006)

John Thurso: ...constituencies represented here this afternoon, where public transport is available. Secondly, and most importantly, there is no congestion of any kind. Of course, all those who are interested in climate change will understand that congestion multiplies the effect of emissions fairly considerably.

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (17 Mar 2005)

Viscount John Thurso: ...of resources and doomed to fail. What we need now is integration and a wise use of resources. Perhaps most important of all is the contribution that long-term strategic planning can make to our climate change goals and to our emission reduction targets. Carbon emissions are a resource that must be used wisely. With transport responsible for about a quarter of the UK's emissions, there is...

Transport (15 Jun 2004)

Viscount John Thurso: ...to double between 1990 and 2010. Clearly, such emission levels are wholly unsustainable. We are long past the time when we can stick our heads in the sand and hope that global warming will go away. Climate change is clearly a reality. We simply cannot go on like this if we want to avoid what the film "The Day After Tomorrow" shows us.

Written Answers — Transport: Climate Change (19 Nov 2003)

Viscount John Thurso: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what research his Department has conducted on the effect of climate change on railway infrastructure; what assessment he has made of the likely impact of future climate change upon the transport sector; and if he will place in the Library copies of reports published from research funded by his Department on the effects of climate change on (a)...