Local Rural Environments - 4th November 2010

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Local Rural Environments.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-11-04/debates/10110444000021/LocalRuralEnvironments

11:01 Matthew Hancock

I thank the Minister. To ensure that there is public support for important renewable energy programmes, does the Minister agree that it is crucial that such projects are put in the right place, and that projects such as onshore wind farms are not put in spectacularly beautiful parts of the country where there is no local support? Will he visit my spectacular part of the country in Suffolk, to see just how beautiful it is?

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11:02 Richard Benyon

The importance of renewables is known and agreed upon throughout the House, and the Government recognise the value of increasing the amount of electricity that we produce from renewable energy. However, we also recognise the genuine local concerns, which have to be included in the planning process. We are reforming the planning system so that it will give local communities more of a say. We want to get that balance right, because it has become skewed in recent years.

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