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Westminster Hall
Community Energy Schemes - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) I start by thanking Steve Shaw and Power for People, who have worked tirelessly on the campaign to unblock - Speech Link
2: Hilary Benn (LAB - Leeds Central) generation system has relied for a very long time on big places making the energy—it used to be via coal - Speech Link
3: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) Leeds Central that we have a grid system and a grid charging system still fundamentally based on where coal-fired - Speech Link
4: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) to a regulated asset base payment contract that will last for 60 years on top of the 10 to 15-year construction - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Onshore Wind Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 19 Nov 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Baroness Worthington (CB - Life peer) That is enough to power 5 million homes. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sheehan (LDEM - Life peer) RenewableUK tells us that the carbon in the construction will be got back within six months, and the - Speech Link
3: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (CB - Life peer) When I joined the board, we had two large coal-fired stations and a lot of small combined-cycle gas turbine - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change: COP 26 - Thu 18 Nov 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) power stations and from their replacement by gas-fired power stations and wind farms. - Speech Link
2: Lord Howell of Guildford (CON - Life peer) power stations does not begin to touch the rising emissions problem that is sitting before us.The only - Speech Link
3: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) At COP, we saw 65 countries commit to coal phase out, including four of the world’s top 20 coal-power - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nuclear Energy (Financing) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 03 Nov 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Alan Whitehead (LAB - Southampton, Test) power—is likely to be required in the shape of new or existing nuclear power stations. - Speech Link
2: David Morris (CON - Morecambe and Lunesdale) stations in my constituency at that moment, whereas those two power stations are pumping energy into - Speech Link
3: Sarah Olney (LDEM - Richmond Park) The use of coal in our power supply fell sharply from the mid-2010s onwards, after which the use of renewables - Speech Link
4: Mark Jenkinson (CON - Workington) stations and go back to burning lignite, the dirtiest form of coal there is? - Speech Link
5: Matthew Pennycook (LAB - Greenwich and Woolwich) heroic assumptions that underpin the claimed £30 billion to £80 billion in long-term savings vis-à-vis coal-fired - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
COP26: Limiting Global Temperature Rises - Thu 21 Oct 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) creation, we are offshoring them to a country that will take longer to cut its emissions, and has 300 coal-fired - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) We need to retrain our offshore workers to work on wind turbines rather than oil rigs, and our construction - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Climate Change Committee Progress Report 2021 - Thu 21 Oct 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Anthony Browne (CON - South Cambridgeshire) We are on the brink of phasing out coal, and wind power is now our main source of electricity—that was - Speech Link
2: Anthony Browne (CON - South Cambridgeshire) Closing down all coal-fired power stations was unthinkable when I was an environment editor—so was banning - Speech Link
3: Alan Whitehead (LAB - Southampton, Test) For example, electricity supply—power stations—currently accounts for 15% of emissions. - Speech Link
4: Anthony Browne (CON - South Cambridgeshire) stations were, because electricity was largely produced by coal then.It is not any greener to drive - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 15 Sep 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Alun Cairns (CON - Vale of Glamorgan) views of Members of Parliament as well as the Welsh Government when considering applications for new stations - Speech Link
2: Jacob Young (CON - Redcar) have a truly nationwide benefit in places such as Port Talbot and Teesside if we use UK steel in its construction - Speech Link
3: Simon Hart (CON - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire) To bring them down to zero, we will be scaling up low-carbon power generation, kickstarting the hydrogen - Speech Link
4: Simon Hart (CON - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire) Lady will no doubt recall that the UK Government put over £30 million into coal tip renewal and coal - Speech Link
5: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) If I recall, the leader of the Labour party himself fired his deputy leader and then rehired her as shadow - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
COP26 Conference Priorities - Thu 22 Jul 2021
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Simon Clarke (CON - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) We have announced the almost total removal of coal for power generation and boast a raft of important - Speech Link
2: Geraint Davies (LAB - Swansea West) It plans for an extra 300 coal-fired power stations, on top of the 1,037 it already has.What we want - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Climate Change: Wales - Wed 14 Jul 2021
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (LAB - Gower) Using timber in construction has a number of benefits, including the capture of CO2 during growth, acting - Speech Link
2: Jamie Wallis (CON - Bridgend) , rather than coal power, could be a way forward.The clean steel fund will support the British steel - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) We have also seen more than 800,000 trees planted and more than 843 water refill stations installed. - Speech Link
4: Geraint Davies (LAB - Swansea West) China’s carbon production will not peak until 2030; it already has 1,037 coal-fired power stations and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Environment Bill
Committee stage - Mon 05 Jul 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) One of the stations was on Marylebone Road, opposite Madame Tussauds. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) In the 1970s, the output from power stations was high in sulphur dioxide, causing acid rain. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) power stations, have decreased—and this is a phenomenon identified by a number of noble Lords.The Government - Speech Link
4: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) Without a small exemption for the use of coal sourced in the UK, we will be importing coal from elsewhere - Speech Link