VoteClimate: High Speed Rail (Government Policy) - 30th March 2010

High Speed Rail (Government Policy) - 30th March 2010

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate High Speed Rail (Government Policy).

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-03-30/debates/10033034000001/HighSpeedRail(GovernmentPolicy)

11:00 Mr. Eric Martlew (Carlisle) (Lab)

I also do not want to go down the road of considering whether high speed rail will be beneficial in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. I think that we will get people coming out of cars and on to the train, but we must also remember that the faster a train goes the more energy that it will use. So I think that those benefits of HS2 will probably be about carbon-neutral overall.

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