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New Nuclear Power

Proceeding contribution from David Mowat (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 7 February 2013. It occurred during Backbench debate on New Nuclear Power.

I am afraid that I cannot.

I am not very impressed by the interconnector with Ireland or with our building a big wind farm in the middle of Ireland and sending the jobs over there. Another option is gas. For pragmatic reasons, that will be part of the solution. It replaces coal and creates much less carbon.

I welcome the use of wind and solar energy. However, we debate these options as if they are mutually exclusive. If our 2050 target was to be met entirely by wind power, the 4,000 wind turbines that we currently have would have to be multiplied by a factor of about 30.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
558 c473 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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