Onshore Wind Subsidies Debate

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Onshore Wind Subsidies

Paul Blomfield Excerpts
Monday 22nd June 2015

(8 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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May I, again, pay tribute and homage to my hon. Friend, who campaigned so hard and led on this issue? I know his constituents will be delighted with this outcome, although I am disappointed to hear that the impact of wind farms has made them negative about renewables in general. I hope we can win them back by our policies that will increasingly involve them. I urge individual Members who want to know what the impact is on developments in their constituency to write to me and I will try to get that information.

Paul Blomfield Portrait Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central) (Lab)
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The Secretary of State said that the Government’s priority was

“to bring about the transition to low-carbon generation as cost-effectively…as possible.”

Does she not recognise that onshore wind is the most cost-effective renewable energy production form?