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Sammy Wilson's Climate-related Tweets, Speeches & Votes

We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Sammy Wilson in the last 90 days

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• 13 Feb 2025: Tweet

  The renewable industry is increasingly dependent on Chinese technology and rare earth metals. Why is this net zero obsessed Secretary of State proposing to hand our future energy supply to a dictatorship in China? https://x.com/eastantrimmp/status/1890056581615882541/video/1 [Source]

• 4 Feb 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  Is it not a fact that, regardless of how much money is put into a warm homes scheme, social tariffs or whatever, consumers can never be insulated against the massive cost of the mad net zero policy that will require thousands of new turbines, acres of solar farms and miles of new transmission lines, all at a cost to the consumer? How on earth does the Minister believe that we will deal with the issue of fuel poverty in this country with that cost?

  Full debate: Warm Homes Plan

• 04 Feb 2025: Tweet

  Labour talk about ending fuel poverty but they are intent on driving up your energy bills with their mad net zero policies. https://x.com/eastantrimmp/status/1886755198363652311/video/1 [Source]

• 21 Jan 2025: Parliamentary Speech

  Devastating changes to inheritance tax, increased environmental costs because of net zero policies, and diversion of farming support to foreign countries—with those kinds of policies, how does the Chancellor ever expect to generate economic growth in rural areas?

  Full debate: Economic Growth

• 13 Jan 2025: Tweet

  Did the Labour Party think that by robbing pensioners of their Winter Fuel Allowance they’d reduce the demand for gas? Or are they so obsessed with Net Zero that they don’t care if we have enough gas to meet our energy needs? https://x.com/eastantrimmp/status/1878854006036205676/video/1 [Source]

• 10 Dec 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  I have a very simple question to ask the right hon. Gentleman: does he believe that climate change is happening and that we need to get to net zero by 2050, or does he believe it is all a hoax?

  Only a fool would say that climate change is not happening. Climate change has occurred in all the time that the earth has been in existence. Of course it happens, and of course it is happening. The hon. Lady asks me a question to which I think anybody could give an easy answer. Yes, climate change is happening, but does that mean that we have identified all the sources of the change in our climate? Does it also mean that we should distort our economy, in such a way as she would suggest, to try to make changes to the world’s climate, especially given that other countries are not making any changes to their economy and are not following our lead? They are simply ignoring us and doing what they believe is best for their own economies.

  There does not appear to be any economic logic to this proposal, other than that the oil companies are seen as bad so the Government have to tax them, even though they are taxed heavily already, and that the Government want to ensure that we have this transition to net zero, even though we know that we will still need the product that the oil companies produce for many decades into the future and we will be turning our back on that production in the United Kingdom.

  We are now many years into an escalating climate crisis, and one that the oil companies have known they were causing since at least 1977. There is absolutely no excuse for public subsidies that incentivise fossil fuel companies to expand their operations. So while I welcome the increase in the rate of the energy profits levy and the reduction of the investment allowance, I want to highlight the fact that, because of other reliefs that still exist, North sea oil and gas companies will still be able to offset 84% of capital expenditure against tax in relation to their expansion of operations.

  Full debate: Finance Bill

• 3 Dec 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  We are told that small businesses will find ways of decreasing their expenditure, but funnily enough, the Government are actually looking for ways of spending more money. They are spending £9 billion on a quango, Great British Energy. The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero came back from COP29 and told us that the Government were now committed to giving £300 billion away to foreign Governments for climate change, but he would not even tell us how much the Government were going to pay out to those Governments. For the nationalisation of the railways, again, there is an open cheque book. We are told that there are no alternatives. Businesses have to find alternatives, but the Government happily spend the revenue that they are taking.

  Full debate: National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill