UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Debate between Alan Whitehead and Andrew TurnerWestminster Hall is an alternative Chamber for MPs to hold debates, named after the adjoining Westminster Hall.
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Dr Whitehead
Might the Chairman of the Committee wish to consider a distinction between internal domestic prices in the US and its export prices? Might he also reflect on the price of the most recent cargo of liquefied natural gas from the US, and the extent to which it was or was not related to the overriding price of shale gas within the US? The extent to which the competitive advantage of the UK may be exported is very much in doubt, and it is likely that world prices, not US domestic prices, will prevail.
Mr Andrew Turner (in the Chair)
Order. Will Members on both sides of the Chamber ensure that interventions are brief?
Mr Andrew Turner (in the Chair)
Mr Lilley, it is your choice as to who is to speak. Who do you wish to speak?
Dr Whitehead
For completeness, will the right hon. Gentleman put on the record the extent to which he accepts any externalities in the extraction, transportation and use of fossil fuels, or does he think that they could be made even cheaper by having 12-year-olds dig them out of the ground with no safety rules whatever, no transportation and no concerns? What are his particular parameters in terms of the comparisons he is making?
Mr Andrew Turner (in the Chair)
Order. I am sorry but we must have brief interventions. That will get us back on to a swifter speech.