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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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• 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]

• 5 Sep 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  As part of the Government’s net zero strategy, car manufacturers are expected to produce 22% of their cars as electric vehicles and face a £15,000 penalty for every car by which they fall short of that. The target is expected to be missed by 100,000 cars this year because of consumer resistance. The effect on the car industry is that producers are restricting supplies of petrol cars to retailers, and some are threatening to pull out of the UK market altogether. In the light of consumer resistance, will the Secretary of State look again at the target set, since consumers are clearly not going to be forced to purchase cars they do not want, and producers will be forced to try to get rid of cars they cannot sell?

  Full debate: Oral Answers to Questions

• 5 Sep 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  We already know, as it has been pointed out, that, according to Ofgem, two thirds of people’s electricity costs in the first quarter of this year were as a result of non-fuel costs. They included the cost of the infrastructure, the environmental policies, and the administration and the operating costs of the grid. Extending the grid, which we will have to do, will incur further costs and put up the price of electricity. That is why the Minister could not guarantee that the £300 saving will be delivered. He knows that the massive costs of changing our system will be borne by the electricity consumer. Whether we regard net zero as good or bad, let us not hide from the fact that it will cost people right across society. It will lead to industry facing higher costs, and consumers facing higher costs and greater fuel poverty.

  Full debate: Great British Energy Bill

• 29 Aug 2024: Tweet

  6/6 With its huge majority in Parliament, this Government believes it can get away with anything. The public must make clear that there will be payback if the Government continue to hurt the finances of ordinary people to pursue net zero. [Source]

• 29 Aug 2024: Tweet

  4/6 This is a Government obsessed with achieving net zero and one way of doing so is to make the cost of energy, for whatever use, more expensive. [Source]