Brian Mathew MP: Climate-Related Speeches In Parliament
Brian Mathew is the Liberal Democrat MP for Melksham and Devizes.
We have identified 0 Parliamentary Votes Related to Climate since 2024 in which Brian Mathew could have voted.
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Brian Mathew's Speeches In Parliament Related to Climate
We've found 1 Parliamentary debates in which Brian Mathew has spoken about climate-related matters.
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16 Jan 2025: Marine Renewables Industry
14:42
In 2010, when the current Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero was Secretary of State for the then Department of Energy and Climate Change, he announced funding for investigations of embryonic tidal technologies. Rolls-Royce and Atkins won the contract to do the study, and their work showed that a tidal scheme on the Aberthaw to Minehead route would generate per year 30.4 TW hours of electricity, significantly more than the Cardiff to Weston-super-Mare line, which was in the region of 20 TW hours per annum.
I thank my hon. Friend for making an excellent point about the centrality of Somerset—in particular, the Minehead route just north of Taunton—to renewable energy. Does he accept that tidal range and tidal barrages and lagoons could make a significant contribution? As he pointed out so well, Swansea lagoon would have done up to 30 TWh, but we could do that across the UK. There could be tidal lagoons in Morecambe bay and in Cumbria, where one was proposed. That would bring investment to regions across the UK and not just benefit the south-west and Somerset.
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