My right hon. Friend is making an excellent point about the extra energy provision that we need to make renewables work. Has he considered the true environmental cost of the batteries, the digging up of cobalt by children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the smelting and all the rest of it? That is the real cost of relying on renewables, and we hear very little about the real cost of the batteries.
Energy Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Mackinlay of Richborough
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 5 September 2023.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Energy Bill [Lords].
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