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We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Pete Wishart

• 05 Jan 2024: Tweet

  Large swathes of England lie under water and 2023 was one of the hottest & wettest years ever. The Tories want to add to climate carnage by taking more fossil fuels out the ground. We must back action to tackle climate change. This is to be congratulated https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/05/chris-skidmore-resigns-conservative-whip-over-sunaks-oil-and-gas-licence-plan?CMP=share_btn_tw [Source]

• 22 Nov 2023: Tweet

  Surely we also need to introduce policies that tackle climate change too? Policies that when introduced by the SNP are disparaged and challenged by a coalition of unionists and social conservatives. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/snp-leaving-scotland-unprepared-for-extreme-weather-g0t50nn8l [Source]

• 8 Nov 2023: Parliamentary Speech

  Apparently, we will get to net zero more efficiently by taking more carbon out of the ground, burning it and then releasing it into the atmosphere. No one believes that sort of bunkum science other than the Tories. This Government have already watered down the climate targets, pushing back the deadline for selling new petrol and diesel cars and the phasing out of gas boilers. By far the best way to improve energy security, cut bills and support workers is through investing in more renewables.

  Full debate: Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity

• 06 Oct 2023: Tweet

  The Tories will make anti-environmentalism and stopping climate change policies an election issue. For the sake of our planet, I’m happy to take them on. My Perthshire Advertiser article. https://twitter.com/PeteWishart/status/1710298882800812520/photo/1 [Source]

• 02 Oct 2023: Tweet

  We now have a Tory/Alba 'hostile environment' for the environment. A piece dealing with all the spurious rubbish from those opposed to climate change policies coming later this week. [Source]

• 01 Oct 2023: Tweet

  No. The SNP must not join the Tories in a campaign of anti environmentalism and opposing policies to tackle climate change. This will now be a general election culture war and the SNP will be on the right side of protecting our planet. https://twitter.com/sunday_mail/status/1708381130754281637 [Source]

• 29 Sep 2023: Tweet

  I'm not sure why people think there is votes in anti-environmentalism and social conservatism when you look at the electoral 'success' of the Tories/Alba. The next election will increasingly be about support for measures to tackle climate change. [Source]

• 28 Sep 2023: Tweet

  @AlexMcNeil14 Someone who denies climate change? [Source]

• 28 Sep 2023: Tweet

  Front page of the Courier. We can not work towards net zero and halt global warming if we continue to open new oil fields. It’s time to say no to new drilling and yes to a future we can all share. https://twitter.com/PeteWishart/status/1707332427742388433/photo/1 [Source]

• 27 Sep 2023: Tweet

  Now blocking en masse a whole slew of climate change deniers. There are some strange and uncomfortable ‘communities’ on here. I’m just not interested…… [Source]

• 02 Sep 2023: Tweet

  @pburrows1976 That (or a variation of it) is what they say about all initiatives to tackle climate change. [Source]

• 02 Sep 2023: Tweet

  Excellent initiative. In a summer where parts of Europe literally burned the attacks on climate change policies and running away from tough decisions must surely end. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/humza-yousaf-calls-climate-change-30841125?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar [Source]

• 27 Aug 2023: Tweet

  Why not? Labour adopted a Tory anti climate change policy after failing to win Uxbridge. Maybe we can get them to adopt our policies to end the 2 child benefit cap and the bedroom tax if they fail to win Rutherglen. https://twitter.com/HeraldPols/status/1695744481566593473 [Source]

• 27 Aug 2023: Tweet

  Spot on. This is why unionists, Albists and various social conservatives have so vigorously attacked the Greens and policies to tackle climate change recently. They can’t go for individual ministers anymore so they go for what protects them. https://www.thenational.scot/news/23749747.shona-robison-reflects-scottish-governments-bute-house-agreement/?ref=twtrec [Source]

• 13 Aug 2023: Tweet

  Interesting article. You see the emergence of 'Climate Populism' everywhere. As Mike says they can't claim the climate crisis isn’t happening so they rubbish the policies, combine it with social conservatism and rage against the 'woke' and the 'Greens'. https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/08/13/a-disaffection-and-a-paradox/ [Source]

• 10 Mar 2023: Tweet

  More on the @CommonsScotAffs report on Hydrogen and CCUS. We hope the Government uses the budget to detail progress towards funding the Acorn carbon capture programme. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/national/23376162.government-urged-use-upcoming-budget-fund-scottish-carbon-capture-project/?ref=twtrec [Source]

• 01 Mar 2023: Tweet

  RT @pksnpgroup: Our budget aims to tackle climate change and support sustainable places. This includes investments of £75,000 to support bi… [Source]

• 2 Nov 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  I am going to speak about all our resources. Let us include a good proportion of nearly all of Europe’s oil and gas reserves; the greatest potential for renewable energy that exists in Europe; vast fisheries; and a water supply that is the envy of the world. With all of that, Scotland has what it takes to be an independent country. Can we all agree to that?

  That is a little more encouraging, because I think we are moving towards the assertion that Scotland would be a successful country and it has more than what it takes to be one. Throwing this theme a wee bit further on, we could even suggest that Scotland is perhaps the best resourced country that has ever considered becoming independent. I think that is pretty incontrovertible. No country is better endowed to be an independent nation. When we look around Scotland, whether at our oil and gas reserves, our fisheries or our potential renewable energy, we see that no country is better prepared for this than Scotland. Can we agree to that?

  Full debate: Scottish Independence and the Scottish Economy

• 27 Oct 2022: Parliamentary Speech

  However, it is not just here in the developed world; we also have to look at what is happening in the developing world. The International Development Committee reminded us of that, because we have not just the war in Ukraine and the recovery from the covid pandemic, but the climate crisis. Some of the biblical scenes that we have seen, particularly from the Horn of Africa, would chill any Member of this House to the bone.

  Thankfully, agricultural support in Scotland is entirely devolved, and we are crafting a new agriculture Bill as we speak, consulting with the sector on the way forward. Unlike the UK’s approach to farm subsidies, the Scottish Government are maintaining a singular fund that will maintain pre-Brexit levels of support for farmers. The Scottish Government are doing everything they can within their limited powers and their budget envelope to ensure food security, and are consulting on the Bill to ensure that happens. At the heart of the Bill will be support for active farming, delivering high-quality, sustainable, affordable food while meeting climate change and biodiversity goals.

  Full debate: National Food Strategy and Food Security

• 21 Oct 2022: Tweet

  It is reckoned that 0.91% of Scotland’s total greenhouse gas emissions in 2021 came from a catastrophic leak at ABP in Perth. I met them today to discuss what they have done to address this and what new procedures are in place. Something like this must not happen again. https://x.com/PeteWishart/status/1583500202358366211/photo/1 [Source]

• 17 Apr 2022: Tweet

  RT @pksnpgroup: Sheila McCole will continue working on housing and community issues, tackling climate change and improving service delivery… [Source]

• 07 Jun 2021: Vote

  Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill — New Clause 1 - Human Rights Abuses - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 13 Jan 2021: Vote

  Financial Services Bill — Schedule 2 - Prudential regulation of FCA investment firms - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 16 Nov 2020: Parliamentary Speech

  I rise to address a number of issues. First, let me say that I fully support the amendments tabled by my hon. Friends—amendment 16 and others—on climate change. With respect to some of the comments that were made earlier, we need much more radical thinking on this if we are to see the types of fundamental shifts that we need in our economy, not just in this country but globally—recognising, of course, that pensions are invested globally—to achieve the kind of action that is needed to deal with the scale of the climate emergency. That will affect the generations to come, just as, if we do not get pensions right, the generations to come will not have the resources they thought they would receive.

  Full debate: Pension Schemes Bill [Lords]

• 16 Nov 2020: Vote

  Pension Schemes Bill [Lords] — Clause 124 - Climate change risk - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 29 Sep 2020: Vote

  United Kingdom Internal Market Bill — New Clause 6 - Economic development: climate and nature emergency impact statement - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 25 Jun 2019: Vote

  Delegated Legislation — Value Added Tax - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 14 Mar 2019: Parliamentary Speech

  Critically, we wanted to explore the readiness of the sector for transition and decarbonisation. We also wanted to look at its preparedness for diversification of the skills acquired over 40 years of production and development in the North sea.

  I should say first that the sector is in a reasonably good place. The resilience shown by our oil and gas industry in the face of such turbulence is to be commended. The tenacity that has been shown by the workforce and others involved in the industry is something we all recognised, and which has supported the sustainable recovery that has been put in place in the past few years. There remains a strong and positive future for Scotland’s oil and gas sector, and the opportunities of a just transition to a decarbonised future are there to be grabbed.

  The industry also has to find new ways to reduce its carbon footprint and use its skills and engineering knowledge to help develop low-carbon and renewable technologies. That is no small task, and those challenges are at the heart of the Committee’s report. We address how the Government should support the industry while it gets ready for production to decline. How do we meet the UK’s energy needs, of which oil and gas will remain a major component, while meeting our climate change obligations?

  I am certain that any delay will, of course, be down to the Government’s taking very seriously the recommendations in our report, and designing the deal around some of the very useful recommendations that we made—that the sector deal is forward-thinking and sets up the industry to meet the challenges of climate change, decommissioning and of the industry’s future beyond the UK continental shelf head on, rather than focusing on the usual support for maximisation of production in the short term. The days of short-termism in the North sea are over. Long-term planning and strategic thinking is required, and those are the priorities for the deal that the report outlines.

  We heard that there is no end to the opportunities available if we get decommissioning right. Sectors including aerospace, data analytics, marine and offshore engineering, digital manufacturing, satellite technology and offshore wind are all open for skills and technology transfer. We were particularly taken by the opportunities in the renewable sector, and we call for the sector deal to contain specific and measurable proposals for how it will improve skill and technology transfer to the sector. Scotland gained by acquiring North sea oil. It is questionable whether we secured the benefits of discovering North sea oil; we must not lose any benefits of what happens next with renewable technology. The skills acquired in the North sea are perfectly fitted, and could be adapted, for use in renewable energy.

  The sector deal must bring forward proposals for how the sector will address its carbon footprint, both in the process of producing and extracting oil and gas, and by finding ways to reduce emissions from their use. The report received a mixed reaction from some environmental groups—I will put is as delicately as that. That surprised me, due to the range of recommendations we made and the care and diligence that we gave to shaping up some of the transition recommendations. We believe in a just transition and said as much in the report. We believe that if that is achieved, we will get to a new future—a green and transformative future for the sector.

  I agree with the Chairman of the Committee, who is speaking very well about the report. We received criticisms from Friends of the Earth, for example, which said that there was no coverage of the impact of climate change. Does he agree that the organisation had clearly not got as far as chapter 6?

  Absolutely. When the report came out, all of us on the Committee were quite surprised by the scale of the response. I do not think there was a true examination of what we had in the report. We say in it that a transition is required, but it has to come from a position of strength. We cannot do anything that would compromise our ability to have a viable and sustainable sector that is in a position to carry out the just transition that environmental groups are looking for.

  We were struck by the importance of carbon capture technology for the long-term future of the industry. The Committee on Climate Change told us that without this technology, decarbonisation of the sector will happen much more slowly and be more costly. This is one area where the Government are ahead of the industry, having announced £45 million of funding for carbon capture innovation, with more potentially available from industrial strategy funds. I know that particularly pleases the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (David Duguid), because most of that investment will be in his constituency. It is right that it should be, because of the infrastructure that exists there.

  Full debate: Future of the Oil and Gas Industry

  The key point, which I think everyone touched on, is ensuring a just transition from a hydrocarbon past to a low-carbon future, and that the investment, skills and expertise carry on into the next stage. I do not like talking of doing away with what we have, or a lack of production. A new adventure is in store for the North sea, and that will include all the things in this report—transformational technology, underwater innovation and decommissioning.

  Full debate: Future of the Oil and Gas Industry

• 5 Jul 2017: Parliamentary Speech

  In the 20th century, the city of Perth became the administrative centre for much of the Scottish whisky industry and for Scottish agriculture. It offered fantastic financial services, particularly insurance, which is still a feature of the city today. From the 1940s, hydro-electric dams shaped communities and landscapes right across highland Perthshire, signalling the coming of the renewable energy revolution.

  Full debate: Perth’s Cultural Contribution to the UK

• 06 Sep 2016: Vote

  Finance Bill — VAT on Installation of Energy Saving Materials - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 9 May 2016: Parliamentary Speech

  Most countries would be proud of the wind industry that has developed in the last decade or so. It should not be seen as a burden, as it apparently is; it contributes massively to jobs, to reducing our carbon emissions and to tackling the great threat of climate change. But—again—no, because it upsets a few folks!

  Full debate: Energy Bill [Lords]

• 26 Oct 2015: Vote

  Finance Bill (Ways and Means) (Payment of Corporation Tax) — Chapter 5 — Supplementary provisions - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 08 Sep 2015: Vote

  Bill Presented — Devolution (London) Bill — Clause 45 — CCL: removal of exemption for electricity from renewable sources - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 14 Jul 2015: Vote

  21. Climate Change Levy: Removal of Exemption for Electricity from Renewable Sources - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 3 Jun 2015: Parliamentary Speech

  I warmly welcome the motion that states that, for the first time, the Scottish National party will chair a Select Committee in the House of Commons. It is like the proverbial bus: we wait for decades to secure a Chair of a Select Committee, and then two come along at once. May I congratulate the usual channels on the way in which this is being debated and decided? We are absolutely thrilled to be given the Chair of the Select Committees on Scottish Affairs and on Energy and Climate Change. We will use due diligence and ensure that we approach them consensually and in a way that will be of value to the House. I look forward to being a part of this set-up, and the Scottish National party very much welcomes the opportunity to chair those Committees.

  Full debate: Select Committees

• 04 Dec 2013: Vote

  Recall of Elected Representatives — Schedule 4 — Application and modification of emissions limit duty - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: No

• 04 Jun 2013: Vote

  Energy Bill — Clause 133 — Financial provisions - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 04 Jun 2013: Vote

  Energy Bill — Clause 10 — Direction to offer contract - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 04 Jun 2013: Vote

  Energy Bill — Clause 1 — Decarbonisation - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 03 Jun 2013: Vote

  Communities and Local Government — Clause 42 — Duty not to exceed annual carbon dioxide emissions limit - Pro-climate vote: No - Their vote: Aye

• 21 Nov 2012: Parliamentary Speech

  These people believe that somehow Scotland will be stripped of its European Union membership and all the European rights that we have built up in the course of 40 years. Scotland is actually enthusiastic about Europe, unlike the hon. Member for Stone and his hon. Friends. It is absolutely absurd to suggest that an independent Scotland would not be welcomed with open arms to the European Union. We are talking about oil-rich Scotland, fisheries-rich Scotland, renewable-energy-rich Scotland. Scotland complies with every single piece of European legislation and is enthusiastic about its European membership. The idea that Scotland would be kicked out of the European Union is totally absurd.

  Full debate: UK Constituent Parts (EU)

• 14 Sep 2011: Vote

  Prime Minister — Clause 42 — Domestic energy efficient regulations - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 14 Sep 2011: Vote

  Prime Minister — Clause 42 — Domestic energy efficient regulations - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 14 Sep 2011: Vote

  Prime Minister — New Clause 1 — Energy efficiency aim - Pro-climate vote: Aye - Their vote: Aye

• 1 Mar 2010: Parliamentary Speech

  To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what public relations companies have had contracts with (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible since his Department was established. ( 317365 )

  Full debate: Departmental Public Relations

• 22 Feb 2010: Parliamentary Speech

  To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much the Government paid to (a) the Isle of Man and (b) Northern Ireland in respect of UK Continental Shelf receipts in (i) 2008 and (ii) 2009. ( 317052 )

  Full debate: Offshore Industry: Taxation