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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 02 Dec 2022
Protection for Whistleblowing Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, for bringing this Bill and for her tenacity in continuing to bring it, because after reading up on this issue, including the excellent Library briefing, I am shocked that we do not have something like this in law already. I do …..."
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Written Question
Climate Change and Environment Protection
Monday 21st November 2022

Asked by: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green Party - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask His Majesty's Government further to the publication of Zero Hour’s Nature and Climate Declaration on 1 November, what steps are they taking (1) to reduce the full scope of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions reductions in line with limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius, (2) to halt and reverse biodiversity decline by 2030, and (3) to deliver a more ambitious and integrated environmental protection and decarbonisation plan.

Answered by Lord Callanan - Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The Government is committed to delivering net zero emissions by 2050. This is consistent with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to well below 2°C and pursue efforts towards 1.5°C.

The Environment Act 2021 commits the Government to halting the decline in species in England by 2030, in addition to setting at least one long term target for biodiversity. The Environment Act’s package of new policies, alongside other measures including the Nature for Climate Fund and new Environmental Land Management schemes, will help the Government to reach its targets and tackle climate change and biodiversity loss.

Written Question
Renewable Energy: Finance
Tuesday 8th November 2022

Asked by: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green Party - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask His Majesty's Government how much consumers were paid back from renewable energy schemes signed up to the Contracts for Difference schemes in the two quarters since April this year.

Answered by Lord Callanan - Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Renewable generators signed up to the Contracts for Difference scheme make payments to energy suppliers, rather than directly to consumers.

The total CfD payments made to suppliers relating to the last two quarters was:

£258,813,576.63.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 24 Oct 2022
Energy Prices Bill

"My Lords, I apologise for not speaking at Second Reading. I did listen to the Minister’s opening speech and I had made my views clear in an earlier briefing. My views sync very closely with those of the noble Lord, Lord Rooker. Quite honestly, this Government are out of control—we …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 24 Oct 2022
Energy Prices Bill

"I am so sorry to interrupt, but I would like the Minister to withdraw the word “conspiracy”. I have legitimate and reasonable fears. It is not a conspiracy; it is actual fact...."
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Written Question
Drax Group
Monday 24th October 2022

Asked by: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green Party - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask His Majesty's Government what knowledge they had, if any, of renewable energy company Drax purchasing licences to cut down trees from primary forests in Canada to make wood pellets for its power station in Yorkshire, as alleged in the BBC's Panorama investigation, which aired on 3 October.

Answered by Lord Callanan - Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The regulator Ofgem is responsible for auditing the sustainability of biomass used by biomass electricity generators which receive support under the Renewables Obligation and has a process in place for this. As is routine, Ofgem is establishing whether the biomass sustainability criteria have been met by the generator. These criteria ensure that only sustainable biomass is used to produce renewable electricity. Sustainability information is publicly available on Ofgem’s website.

To receive support generators must follow sustainable management practices that require the maintenance and replanting of the forest, demonstration that deforestation is not occurring where they source material from, and that biodiversity, soil and water are protected, among other requirements.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 12 Oct 2022
Energy Supplies

"To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of (1) increased fracking and oil and gas extraction on energy costs for consumers, and (2) the time frame required for such supplies to come on stream in comparison with renewable energy capacity...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 12 Oct 2022
Energy Supplies

"I thank the Minister for his reply; I will not call it an Answer. I am sure that he is extremely embarrassed by his Government’s ditching of one of their election promises not to frack any more. I would like a yes or no answer to a question. If local …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 11 Oct 2022
Prepayment Meters: Pricing

"My Lords, is the Minister aware that renewable energy is nine times cheaper than fossil fuel energy? If there were not an anti-science coalition in the Conservative Party—including previous Prime Minister Cameron, who said to cut the green “stuff”—bills would not be as high and we would not be in …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 07 Sep 2022
Energy Bill [HL]

"I have always been very sceptical about carbon capture and storage and direct capture of carbon dioxide from the air, because they are basically unproven technologies. I could say that I am even quite sneery about them, because people constantly use them as justification for not adopting the tried-and-tested solutions …..."
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