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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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• 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

• 09 Nov 2024: Tweet

  (2/2) …there is no questioning of the cost of decarbonising electricity in terms of investment needed, jobs lost, energy security or energy bills. My latest article for Comment Central: https://commentcentral.co.uk/why-the-budgets-decarbonisation-is-damaging-and-needs-scrutiny [Source]

• 09 Nov 2024: Tweet

  (1/2) In a House of Commons which is dominated by people obsessed with climate change, and who have either lost their critical facilities or are scared to use them in the face of the well organised green lobby… [Source]

• 30 Oct 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  One thing I am fairly sure of, looking at the broader picture that the Government have tried to paint, is that the Budget, and the behaviour of the Government in the lead-up to it, will increase the existing cynicism towards politics and politicians. During the election, the Labour party said, “We have a fully funded programme. We know what the figures are. We’re not going to increase your taxes.” Then suddenly there is a black hole. After painting the black hole, what do the Government do? They immediately start spending stacks of money. They give wage increases, set up quangos to deliver net zero, and spend money on carbon capture and storage. Billions of pounds are suddenly announced against a background of: “We have no money, and we’re going to have to put up taxes.”

  Full debate: Budget Resolutions

• 30 Oct 2024: Tweet

  The natural landscape of the Sperrin Mountains has been destroyed by industrial wind farms. It is hardly an example of renewable energy being nature friendly. https://x.com/eastantrimmp/status/1851575595978637698/video/1 [Source]