Mentions:
1: Greg Clark (CON - Tunbridge Wells) The whole world is moving from being powered principally by fossil fuels towards energy sources that - Speech Link
2: Ed Davey (LDEM - Kingston and Surbiton) can be used to bring in zero-subsidy CfDs to give real certainty to people wanting to invest in our renewable - Speech Link
3: Greg Clark (CON - Tunbridge Wells) Contracts for difference have brought down the price of renewable energy substantially. - Speech Link
4: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) moving away from their nuclear obsession, given—as he acknowledged—CfD has brought down the cost of renewable - Speech Link
5: Mims Davies (CON - Mid Sussex) They are freezing fuel duty and duty on beer, wine and spirits. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (CON - Life peer) The renewable energy industry in the midlands is thriving. - Speech Link
2: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (CON - The Cotswolds) in the Cotswolds—and, indeed, the entire country—will be really pleased to see the freeze on wine, spirits - Speech Link
3: Jo Swinson (LDEM - East Dunbartonshire) They have scrapped rules for zero-carbon homes, cut subsidies for solar and renewable heat, privatised - Speech Link
4: Geraint Davies (LAB - Swansea West) would have liked to see a focus on the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon and green energy, because 80% of fossil fuels - Speech Link
5: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) , and the Chancellor’s tinkering around the edges will not cut it.We have heard nothing today about renewable - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Fookes (CON - Life peer) far in this debate, save when my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe mentioned homes and gardens and my spirits - Speech Link
2: Lord Oxburgh (CB - Life peer) the consequences of the deluge of greenhouse gases that is largely produced by the burning of fossil fuels - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Oldham (LAB - Life peer) Yet there has been limited investment in renewable energy. - Speech Link
4: Lord Prior of Brampton (Non-affiliated - Life peer) We have spent £730 million on renewable support over that time. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Featherstone (LDEM - Life peer) technologies, including solar PV and anaerobic digestion; ending renewable energy’s exemption from the - Speech Link
2: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) More power now comes from wind farms than from coal, and solar produces more energy than fossil fuels - Speech Link
3: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LDEM - Life peer) I suggest that, as long as we need fossil fuels, it is much better that we use UK fossil fuels than increase - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Oldham (LAB - Life peer) I will certainly be able to give his spirits a little lift—and, by heavens, those who went to watch Newcastle - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Caroline Flint (LAB - Don Valley) We welcome the agreement that the G7 countries reached this week to phase out the use of fossil fuels - Speech Link
2: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) we do at home sends a really strong signal about the seriousness with which we treat leaving fossil fuels - Speech Link
3: Caroline Flint (LAB - Don Valley) Not only can the technology be applied to fossil fuels, but it has industrial applications for our energy-intensive - Speech Link
4: Christian Matheson (LAB - City of Chester) In the middle ages, every village nearby needed a giant to scare off evil spirits, and Chester was a - Speech Link
5: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) Prescott did.We welcome the historic commitment by the G7, led by Germany, to agree to phase out fossil fuels - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Salisbury (Bishops - Bishops) Renewable energy, not just oil and fossil fuels, will be a key part of debates about the future of the - Speech Link
2: Lord Wakeham (CON - Life peer) I am not against renewable energy. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (CON - Life peer) If we do not do that, wilder spirits may take over, with results that I am sure no one in this House - Speech Link
4: Lord Bates (CON - Life peer) I apologise to noble Lords who spoke on the issue of renewable energy. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) They are great for those people, but it fuels the house price increases we have seen in my constituency - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) Although it was announced that the feed-in tariff element of renewable compensation for energy intensive - Speech Link
3: Mike Weir (SNP - Angus) alone owning one.The only boost to local businesses is likely to be for estate agents, as this measure fuels - Speech Link
4: Andrea Leadsom (CON - South Northamptonshire) wine duty, cutting beer duty by a penny a pint, and cutting duty on cider, Scotch whisky and other spirits - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Razzall (LDEM - Life peer) overwhelming factor at the moment, though, has been the return of what Keynes described as “animal spirits - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) Indeed, we have more than enough fossil fuels remaining to do almost irreparable damage to our world. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) We really should not be spending public funds on the extraction of fossil fuels that would be better - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kramer (LDEM - Life peer) My noble friend Lord Razzall talked of the animal spirits that are pushing forward the economy. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Charles Kennedy (LDEM - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) The industry did not have a long-term, viable global future; it was losing out to the white spirits industry - Speech Link
2: Alan Whitehead (LAB - Southampton, Test) It directly means that renewable obligation buying power, part of the levy control framework system, - Speech Link
3: Iain Wright (LAB - Hartlepool) Budget provided nothing to help realise that ambition, and in certain ways, such as the ending of the renewable - Speech Link
4: Paul Blomfield (LAB - Sheffield Central) The Chancellor’s Budget fuels the gap.Let us spend a moment looking at two-economies Britain under this - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) These renewable sources can play only a marginal role. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Parminter (LDEM - Life peer) By contrast, as observed by the Economist in its recent study on nuclear, the costs of many renewable - Speech Link
3: Baroness Worthington (CB - Life peer) Some of those fuels that are currently stored as waste could kick-start a new generation of nuclear reactors - Speech Link
4: Baroness Verma (CON - Life peer) My endeavour today will be to lift his spirits a little. - Speech Link