Debates between Mark Garnier and Jamie Stone during the 2024 Parliament

Renewable Energy Projects: Community Benefits

Debate between Mark Garnier and Jamie Stone
Tuesday 15th October 2024

(2 months, 1 week ago)

Westminster Hall
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Mark Garnier Portrait Mark Garnier
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That is great. If people accept pylons, that is absolutely fine, but there are an awful lot of people who do not and we can look at where the alternatives could be cheaper.

Jamie Stone Portrait Jamie Stone
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Will the hon. Member give way?

Mark Garnier Portrait Mark Garnier
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I am mindful of time, but I will take one more intervention.

Jamie Stone Portrait Jamie Stone
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Does it not strike the hon. Member as strange that SSE proposed to underground the cable in the highlands from Dundonald to Beauly, yet says that it is impossible to do so in other parts? That is a very mountainous part of the highlands, so I think there is something in what my hon. Friend the Member for Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire (Mr MacDonald), my constituency neighbour, said about it being possible.