VoteClimate: Hinkley Point - 14th November 2018

Hinkley Point - 14th November 2018

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Hinkley Point.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-11-14/debates/91D198A9-A2FD-4919-A9B1-583A469662CF/HinkleyPoint

16:00 Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset) (Con)

The golden advantage of nuclear power is that it produces electricity even if the sun does not shine and the wind stops blowing—surprise, surprise. It also involves an enormous number of people—in designing, building, maintaining and developing. Nuclear is a major national employer. It is a clean, green energy source. It is carbon-neutral. Nuclear is not cheap to develop, as it can take a decade to install, but it lasts for generations. Nothing in life is perfect, but in my humble opinion, nuclear power is pretty darn good.

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16:19 The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Richard Harrington)

The question I raised regarding the announcement made in 2013 by the then Department of Energy and Climate Change still stands, and I know that the communities of Bridgwater and of Anglesey are concerned that nothing much has happened since then. Will the Minister reiterate his commitment to that formula so that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Welsh Government can work with his Department, the mechanism can be put in place and, when the stations are generating, the communities can get the full benefits?

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