Energy Infrastructure: Chinese Companies Debate
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Sammy Wilson
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Energy Infrastructure: Chinese Companies
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Kerry McCarthy
It sounds very much like the hon. Member is making the case for an industrial strategy that ensures that we can match demand with supply. That approach was particularly missing from the previous Government.
Sammy Wilson (East Antrim) (DUP)
Almost on a weekly basis, we are lectured by the net zero-obsessed Secretary of State that the race for renewables is necessary in order to give this country a secure future supply of energy. Yet the renewables industry is increasingly dependent on Chinese technology, and on rare earth metals, of which the Chinese control 70%, so we are placing our future energy supply in the hands of a dictatorship that has proved itself willing to use such infrastructure to blackmail the countries in which it is based. Should we not consider the supply of fossil fuels in this country—decades of oil and gas—which we could use without interference from others?
Kerry McCarthy
We believe that the best route to energy security is through our clean power by 2030 mission and further investment in renewables. That remains our stance.