Energy Bill

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, who moved his amendment with great clarity and force, has...

My Lords, I support this amendment. I will not repeat the much more eloquently phrased words of m...

My Lords, this is the first occasion on which I have spoken on this Bill, although during the Que...

My Lords, I apologise to the Committee for missing the first couple of sentences of the introduce...

My Lords, I must first apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, for also having arrived a minut...

Perhaps I may remind the noble Lord of the regional advisory committees. Certainly, the North Sea...

I am sorry but I did not quite hear that.

The noble Lord was talking about the common fisheries policy. The North Sea regional advisory com...

I absolutely agree that there are places for advisory boards. There are examples of where that wo...

Before the noble Lord sits down, I am not clear from what he said whether or not thinks there is ...

No, absolutely. First, this will not solve the problem that we have. There is not time to solve t...

My Lords, my noble friend knows that I do not agree with all the views that he has just put forwa...

My Lords, I will not take very long. I do not have the remotest idea what the Minister is going t...

As I was so impressed by the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, on this issue at Second Read...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, for tabling this amendment and to the ot...

My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, and all noble Lords who have spoken to the ...

With great respect, I do not believe that I said anything of the kind. However, I will read the t...

I stand corrected by my noble friend. I would, however, reassure my noble friend that decisions o...

That was the point that I dealt with in my speech, based on my own experience. I was going to int...

My Lords, if I choose to slightly disagree with my noble friend, that is perhaps a position that ...

It is just a small point, which is that part of the problem is the plethora of advisory boards. P...

The important thing is that noble Lords know how the governance of existing structures works as a...

My Lords, I add my thanks to all who have taken part in this debate. I shall reply very briefly i...

Moved by

Lord Oxburgh

51C: After Clause 136, insert the following new Clause—

G...

My Lords, I hope that we can deal with this amendment a little more expeditiously, and that it wi...

My Lords, I was happy to add my name to the amendment. I see it more as a vehicle for promoting a...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Oxburgh and Lord Jenkin, for tabling this amendm...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, and my noble friend Lord Jenkin for prom...

My Lords, I waited to intervene until I heard the Minister’s reply because this was a point raise...

I am extremely grateful to my noble friend for allowing me to write to him and to the Committee, ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have spoken on this. I am certainly gratified to hear from the ...

Moved by

Lord Teverson

51J: After Clause 136, insert the following new Clause—

...

My Lords, I have a sense of déjà vu about this amendment. With every energy Bill in which I have ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, is to be congratulated on his persistence in tabling ame...

My Lords, as my noble friend Lord Teverson has said, he has a longstanding interest in geothermal...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that very positive response. There are two things that I would...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

51JA*: Clause 47, page 46, line 27, at end insert—

We are now discussing the part of the Bill that concerns the emissions performance standard. By w...

My Lords, I declare an interest as honorary president of the Carbon Capture and Storage Associati...

The Committee on Climate Change has made it clear that CCS is an essential part of the matters th...

It is comforting to know that the tweets are flowing. The trouble is that CCS has not yet been ma...

I say this with some hesitation and with great respect to the noble Lord who has just spoken. It ...

My Lords, I support the amendment. CCS is very important. While most of us here—I am happy to not...

Did the noble Lord notice today’s announcement by the Chinese that they were considerably upping ...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Deben, for endorsing my point. I was going to say that, unfortunatel...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, for introducing this chapter of the Bill....

I thank the Minister for his encouraging response and for saying that he will take the amendment ...

Before the noble Baroness does so, the Minister mentioned 2020 in terms of commercialisation. Giv...

I thank my noble friend. My understanding is that we may be working on this as early as 2015.

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

51JB: Clause 47, page 46, line 28, leave out “2044” and...

This amendment would also amend the EPS regulations. The consultation document issued on the EPS ...

My Lords, first, I thank the Minister for his response to the previous debate, which was measured...

My Lords, I support this amendment and the points made by the noble Lord, Lord Deben. It would be...

My Lords, I, too, support this amendment. I will not repeat all the arguments that I and others h...

My Lords, I, too, have great concern about the very late date here. It seems that this, perhaps i...

Does my noble friend find it rather curious that we are prepared to put a date 31 years from now ...

Indeed, although we have the situation, as I understand it—my noble friend will be closer to this...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for tabling this amendment, which has prompted a fu...

A gas power station produces emissions of 300 grams per kilowatt hour, coal 600 grams. Hence we h...

Perhaps there is something I misunderstand here in the argument. This is not just about grandfath...

I thank noble Lords for their interventions. I think all will be revealed in due course.

I ...

On that point, will my noble friend give way? I still do not understand the difference of view. T...

Let me quote the CBI, which is particularly supportive of the Bill’s proposals:

“The curren...

Most of the members of the CBI have also asked for that on the question of carbon intensity in 20...

As I say, I am quoting the CBI specifically on this matter, and it cites the year 2045. Although ...

I know that I am stretching the patience of my noble friend but I want to get this clear in my mi...

My understanding is that the answer to that is yes.

Perhaps I might suggest to my noble friend that there is a way out of this, which is that we put ...

I have said that I will study everything that all noble Lords have said. The point is that you wo...

I thank the Minister for his comments. It is incorrect to say that this amendment would introduce...

Moved by

Viscount Hanworth

51JC: Clause 47, page 46, line 28, leave out “450” and ins...

My Lords, with the leave of the Committee, I will also speak to Amendment 51KA and to the other p...

My Lords, I suggest that there is much here for the Government to think about seriously. We need ...

My Lords, I have hesitated to intervene in this section for some time, but I feel that I should f...

My Lords, in speaking to the amendments tabled by the noble Viscount, Lord Hanworth, I will not g...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Viscount, Lord Hanworth, for his amendments, which have give...

I regret that the Minister has been placed in a position of having to defend the indefensible. Ne...

Moved by

Lord Teverson

51K: Clause 47, page 47, line 30, at end insert—

“( ) fo...

My Lords, I move into an area that on the whole is pretty contentious. I do so almost reluctantly...

I should say to my noble friend Lord Teverson that having not been perhaps been easy in my commen...

My Lords, I, too, have been following this issue carefully. Before my noble friend Lord Ridley ha...

My Lords, my name is attached to the amendment. I was not going to speak because of time, but the...

Like the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, we agree that biomass could make a significant and important ...

My Lords, first, I thank my noble friend for tabling the amendment, and all noble Lords who have ...

My Lords, I very much agree with the noble Lord, Lord Deben. I have often said that this is the o...

Moved by

Lord Teverson

51M: Schedule 4, page 125, line 3, at end insert—

“(iii)...

My Lords, I take the emissions performance standard very seriously, as I did at Second Reading. A...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, for tabling this amendment, to which I have added my name....

Does the noble Baroness agree that the reporting of the dangers of the lights not being kept on i...

I could not agree more. These dirty dozen plants have very low efficiency and very high carbon in...

I hope the noble Baroness knows that I do not like anyone being disappointed, bur it is the reali...

I tried to cut that off that in my comments to stop the Minister using it. It is illogical to say...

Surely, even if a few coal plants carried on until 2025 or 2030, would it not be a good idea to r...

My Lords, the Minister mentioned in his reply that under the gas strategy only two plants would b...

I thank the noble Baroness for her expert comments on this amendment. I admit I am perplexed by m...