Energy Supplies

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering Excerpts
Wednesday 12th October 2022

(2 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan (Con)
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The noble Lord speaks a great deal of sense. They are eminently sensible suggestions and of course local communities will want to feel the benefit of any procedures that they consent to in their areas.

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering Portrait Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con)
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My Lords, following up that point, does my noble friend agree that energy from waste is very much the way forward, and will he ensure that any benefits go to the local community from electricity generated from waste?

Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan (Con)
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I am happy to agree with my noble friend that energy from waste is an excellent production technique. There are many successful energy-from-waste projects; it is another technology that will make a contribution to our energy supply.