VoteClimate: Coalfield Communities - 28th October 2014

Coalfield Communities - 28th October 2014

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Coalfield Communities.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2014-10-28/debates/1410297000001/CoalfieldCommunities

16:51 The Minister for Business and Enterprise (Matthew Hancock)

Looking to the future, particularly that of the coal-fired Lynemouth power station in my constituency, will the Minister assist my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in his efforts to ensure that we get European state aid approval for the conversion to biomass of the Lynemouth power station?

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18:49 The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Penny Mordaunt)

The centre, scheduled to open in spring 2016, will create a new national eco-tourism visitor destination, attracting more than 1 million visitors a year. It will showcase mining heritage and sustainable energy production. A bespoke green technologies enterprise complex will provide space for companies in food security, environmental technology and green business. The Betteshanger sustainable education centre will support world-class research and development in environmental and countryside programmes, climate change, sustainability, and agro-ecology and production. The park itself, a gateway to east Kent, will provide lifelong learning, shops, public spaces and events, and create 1,000 jobs.

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