Revised Energy National Policy Statements

My Lords, energy is a serious topic, as we have been forcefully reminded very recently. Indeed, m...

My Lords, I welcome this document. I remember some 10 years ago sitting here and going through al...

My Lords, I declare my interests. My commitment to the environment came with me into my first min...

My Lords, it was good last September to finally have sight of the draft updates for the range of ...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Baroness. I refer to my interests as declared in the...

I wish the Minister had shown me his speech before he gave it today, because I could have gone th...

My Lords, black gold powered the industrial revolution. Where would we be today without it? Thank...

My Lords, I apologise for speaking in the gap, but I had not realised that we had to have a list ...

My Lords, the Liberal Democrats welcome the fact that the Government have set an ambitious net-ze...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his comprehensive introductory statement and all other noble L...

The planning process for renewables and low-carbon development such as hydrogen and CCS should en...

My Lords, I thank everyone who contributed to this debate. As always, it has been interesting and...

I am grateful for the Minister’s response, but could he address one specific question that I aske...

During the planning process itself, community mitigations will be taken into account, providing t...

I am grateful to my noble friend for answering all our points so clearly and fully. I asked a que...

The whole purpose of these national policy statements is to try to speed up the planning process ...

If I may reinforce the point I made, if it takes eight years to get consent for something, that i...

We are always open to finding new ways of speeding these things up, but you also have to take int...

I did not raise the issue of fracking necessarily as a short-term measure. With any energy, we kn...

My noble friend makes a good point. Supplies of gas from the North Sea are slowly declining. We w...