Coal-fired Power Stations - 25th February 2010

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Coal-fired Power Stations.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-02-25/debates/10022591000020/CoalfiredPowerStations

Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington) (LD)

8. What plans he has to limit the level of carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power stations after 2020.

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The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change (Joan Ruddock)

The Government’s “A framework for the development of clean coal”, which was published in November, delivers a comprehensive package of policy measures that will drive the transition to clean coal to 2020 and beyond. Our ambition is that any new coal plant constructed from 2020 will be fully carbon capture and storage from day one and that coal-fired power stations with demonstration projects will retrofit CCS to their full capacity by 2025.

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Joan Ruddock

I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that we have the most radical and most environmentally demanding coal policy in the world, and we have the greatest incentive to industry to invest with the CCS levy. Frankly, not a single company and not a single independent adviser such as the Committee on Climate Change would support him in saying that introducing an emissions performance standard at this point would be appropriate.

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