Onshore Wind Subsidies Debate

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James Cleverly

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Onshore Wind Subsidies

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Monday 22nd June 2015

(9 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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I said in my statement that, in respect of contracts for difference, we would be implementing the terms of our manifesto.

James Cleverly Portrait James Cleverly (Braintree) (Con)
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As it is local communities that will have to deal with the visual impact of wind farms, should they not have the final say on this and other visually intrusive forms of renewable energy, such as large solar farms?

Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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My hon. Friend is exactly right. One of the key purposes of this arrangement is to involve local communities so that they feel that they have a right to say how their environment is being affected.