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Energy Bill [HL]

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Worthington (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 28 March 2023. It occurred during Debate on bills on Energy Bill [HL].

I shall speak briefly to Amendment 58, which the noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale, has so eloquently spoken to. I definitely support the nuclear element of this amendment, and I am grateful to the noble Lord for bringing this to our attention, as well as to the Minister for taking it on proactively. However, I have a question around the inclusion of fossil-derived sources of energy in this approach. I am not one to rule things out, and I think that we need to use all the tools available to us, but there is a material difference when you are using a fuel derived from fossil fuels, in that once it is combusted the CO2—the greenhouse gases—will be readmitted to the atmosphere. Can the Minister say a bit more about how something derived from nuclear electricity, which is intrinsically clean, to create a fuel, is different from the waste derived from a fossil source of energy? I just want clarification on that point.

6.15 pm

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
829 c176 
Session
2022-23
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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