VoteClimate: Onshore Wind Farms - 25th October 2022

Onshore Wind Farms - 25th October 2022

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Onshore Wind Farms.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-10-25/debates/4D64FBFC-463B-4558-AFA1-0B8D5F70757B/OnshoreWindFarms

Jeff Smith (Labour)

As a direct result of the Conservative Government’s decision to cut the “green crap” in 2015, every household’s bill is hundreds of pounds higher. Does the Minister regret that mistake, and is it not long past time to reform planning laws and to get on with building the quickest, cheapest, cleanest forms of power, such as onshore wind and solar, which would increase our energy security, cut bills and tackle the climate crisis—work that the Government have been blocking for far too long?

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Graham Stuart (Conservative)

It was this Government who passed the net zero legislation. It was this party that was the first major party to call for the climate Act, which has driven this behaviour, and it was this party that took us from 6.8% electricity from renewables to more than 40% today. It is this party that brought in the contracts for difference, which have been copied all over the world, and which see tens of millions of pounds paid to reduce bills at the moment, with the last round driving 11 GW of additional clean energy into the system. It is this party that delivers on net zero and the environment and it is that party—the Labour party—that talks about it.

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