Onshore Wind Subsidies Debate

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Onshore Wind Subsidies

Jason McCartney Excerpts
Monday 22nd June 2015

(8 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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My hon. Friend makes a very good point. He is right that we have ended the large-scale solar farm issue in terms of applications for the renewables obligation, but I have concerns about exactly the possibility that he has raised, and I will address it in the feed-in tariff review that I will be conducting this summer.

Jason McCartney Portrait Jason McCartney (Colne Valley) (Con)
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The Huddersfield Civic Society, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Natural England, the National Trust, local artist Ashley Jackson and the Campaign to Protect Rural England have major concerns and are opposing a huge wind farm development high up on moorland in my constituency. Will the Secretary of State confirm that local people will have the final say on this major development?

Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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I thank my hon. Friend for that list of supporters and I can indeed give him that confirmation.