Grant Shapps described on shore wind farms as an ‘eyesore’ for communities
Boris Johnson’s cupboard stays break up on the best way to transfer ahead with vitality plans, with the transport secretary expressing his opposing views publicly.
Grant Shapps has mentioned the federal government’s upcoming vitality safety technique is not going to embrace plans to extend onshore wind farms.
He beforehand described onshore wind farms as “one thing of an eyesore” which trigger noise issues, and has recommended the federal government proceed with photo voltaic, tidal, offshore wind farms and new nuclear vitality.
The federal government’s vitality technique was set to be revealed final week, however has since been delayed. The plan will embrace the federal government’s goals for extra renewable vitality and to cut back the UK’s reliance on Russian gas.
Jonathan Reynolds mentioned the federal government is “making an enormous mistake” by not lifting the onshore wind ban
The shadow enterprise secretary informed Instances Radio: “I actually assume the Authorities are actually making a mistake in the event that they imagine that onshore wind, which is the most affordable type of new electrical energy era, isn’t going to be a part of the answer to this.
“You want safe provides which are renewable and that meet our net-zero aims, but in addition that are delivered at a price that signifies that the burden on shoppers and households is as gentle as it could probably be.
“Onshore wind and offshore wind are an enormous a part of that as a result of they’re not simply renewable however on the least expensive worth.
“I believe onshore wind – the general public helps the arguments round there and the Authorities is making an enormous mistake in the event that they nonetheless can’t make their minds up about that.”
Aisha Rimi3 April 2022 12:45
Grant Shapps mentioned the “logical place” to increase wind vitality manufacturing is off shore
Requested if the Authorities’s upcoming vitality safety technique will see the UK construct extra wind generators onshore, the Transport Secretary informed Instances Radio: “I believe that by way of very giant enlargement – we already truly do essentially the most offshore wind on the planet – however by way of giant enlargement I’d look to see extra of it offshore.
“I believe that’s the logical place to do it, each by way of the quantity of wind and the place the funding can go and the place you possibly can construct it at very giant scale.
“I’m not saying there will be no extra onshore wind. There could also be locations the place that’s applicable.
“However do I believe that we should always have… huge fields, as we do offshore, of wind farms? No, I don’t assume that’s what you’re going to see within the plan this week, for superb purpose. It doesn’t work as effectively and naturally environmentally it additionally creates all kind of issues.”
Aisha Rimi3 April 2022 12:26
Shadow enterprise secretary appears to have U-turned on potential vitality rationing
Jonathan Reynolds seems to have U-turned on his preliminary opinion for vitality rationing, telling Instances Radio it could be a “catastrophe for households and companies”.
Showing on the BBC’s Sunday Morning programme earlier within the day, he mentioned that the federal government needs to be contemplating plans to ration provides.
However when requested in a while whether or not the UK needs to be rationing vitality, he informed Instances Radio: “No, that might be a catastrophe for households and for companies. However the truth you’re even asking the query is an indictment of Conservative vitality coverage for the final decade.
“We nonetheless haven’t had a plan from the Authorities despite the fact that they mentioned it was to them a precedence and an emergency.
“In the event that they have been to observe what we’ve put ahead – so a concentrate on vitality effectivity, on increasing and altering the onshore wind by way of the ban that they’ve obtained in place, additional work on photo voltaic, tidal, offshore wind and new nuclear – that might be a complete plan for the longer term.
“On the similar time, in the event that they adopted our plans for a windfall tax, that might give households and companies the true assist they want within the brief time period too.”
Aisha Rimi3 April 2022 11:45
Labour celebration and Tory authorities differ in opinions concerning rationing vitality provides
As European nations, similar to Germany, Austria and the Netherlands take into account limiting their provides attributable to their heavy dependence on Russian vitality, the Labour celebration is urging the federal government to think about the identical.
Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, nonetheless, insists that rationing is not going to be wanted.
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Aisha Rimi3 April 2022 11:17
Shapps: Vitality is not going to be rationed within the UK
Grant Shapps has mentioned vitality is not going to be rationed within the UK, after the shadow enterprise secretary recommended ministers ought to put together for the opportunity of doing so.
Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds informed the BBC’s Sunday Morning programme that the federal government needs to be contemplating plans to ration vitality provides.
However the Transport Secretary mentioned rationing is not going to occur within the UK. Requested if it’s a “good thought” for the UK to look into the thought, he informed the identical programme: “No, I don’t.”
Pressed on whether or not he can “fully” rule out vitality rationing within the UK, he mentioned: “Sure, I can. It’s not the route that we need to go down.”
Aisha Rimi3 April 2022 10:46
Reynolds: Everybody fined over lockdown events needs to be recognized
When requested particularly whether or not Ms Johnson needs to be named if she has been fined as a result of “Partygate” scandal, Jonathan Reynolds informed Clive Myrie on BBC One: “Sure, I believe anybody who’s been in Downing Road needs to be named if they’ve been a part of this.
Even if Ms Johnson isn’t a politician and is a non-public citizen, Mr Reynolds said: “All individuals need is a few transparency as to what actually went on in Downing Road. We have been informed in Parliament, the Prime Minister informed us in Parliament, he was not conscious of any events.
“What we’ve seen up to now with the fixed-penalty notices which have come out to comparatively junior civil servants – the tradition right here was set from the highest.
“All individuals need to know is, has the Prime Minister been truthful and has Downing Road as an establishment been following the identical guidelines as everybody else?”
Aisha Rimi3 April 2022 10:38
Jonathan Reynolds: Authorities ought to take into account plans to ration vitality provides within the UK
When requested whether or not the UK needs to be ready to ration oil and gasoline, the shadow enterprise secretary informed Clive Myrie on BBC One’s Sunday Morning programme: “We needs to be making these plans and the federal government needs to be getting ready, not essentially in public, for that state of affairs.
“There’s plenty of complacency on this nation in regards to the relative decrease publicity to Russian gasoline that we now have.
“However we should always keep in mind that a part of the provision that involves this nation from, for example, Norway or from the liquefied pure gasoline that goes into the terminals and wells, that’s partly as a result of Russian gasoline is fulfilling the calls for of central Europe.
“I believe what the Authorities ought to announce is a plan which isn’t merely procuring from one authoritarian regime to the subsequent for fossil fuels, however that long-term plan on renewables or nuclear and vitality effectivity that might make the distinction.
“However let’s be clear, we’re wanting on the pictures popping out of Ukraine proper now, I don’t assume we needs to be speaking about going again to enterprise as ordinary the place we simply purchase giant portions of fossil fuels.”
Put together to ration oil and gasoline says Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds
Aisha Rimi3 April 2022 10:33
Shadow enterprise secretary says he ‘feels indignant’ on the scale of the residing disaster
Talking on BBC One’s Sunday Morning programme with Clive Myrie, he mentioned: “I sit right here this morning and I really feel indignant on the scale of the disaster individuals on this nation are dealing with and the dearth of response from Authorities within the spring assertion – and guarantees on issues and bulletins sooner or later simply received’t reduce it.
“Now we have set out that windfall tax that might give households an enormous quantity of assist, relative to what the Authorities are doing – as much as £600 for households who’re most affected by vitality costs.
“However we put in {that a} contingency fund for companies, a £600 million contingency fund for companies which is important as a result of all companies are uncovered to those increased vitality costs, however for vitality intensives the state of affairs is so excessive that a few of them are even contemplating – are they aggressive, can they proceed manufacturing?
“After all once you add that to the nationwide insurance coverage rise that the Authorities went forward with within the spring assertion, it is a actually critical state of affairs.
“The vitality assertion will cope with long-term problems with provide as I perceive it, it is not going to be about assist now, and the Authorities has to grasp the size of this disaster.”
Aisha Rimi3 April 2022 10:15
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps mentioned he doesn’t “favour an enormous enhance in onshore wind farms”
Requested if planning legal guidelines needs to be relaxed to permit for extra onshore wind farms, Mr Shapps informed Sky’s Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme: “I don’t favour an enormous enhance in onshore wind farms, for fairly apparent causes – they sit on the hills there and may create one thing of an eyesore for communities in addition to precise issues of noise as effectively.
“So I believe for causes of environmental safety, the way in which to go along with that is largely, not solely, however largely off-sea.”
Grant Shapps assaults new onshore wind generators as ‘eyesore on the hills’
Pressed on whether or not meaning the thought of a “huge enhance within the variety of onshore wind farms” is “successfully off the desk for now”, he mentioned: “I’d urge you to attend for the vitality technique later within the week. However my pondering is what you actually need to do is develop in different methods – nuclear, we can have offshore wind. I don’t assume you need an enormous enlargement of onshore wind.
“There could also be instances the place it is smart, however I believe by and huge we’ve established… that offshore works very effectively. And by the way in which, it’s offering various our electrical energy already.”
Aisha Rimi3 April 2022 10:03
Shadow enterprise secretary says Authorities ‘hasn’t completed sufficient’ to sort out rising vitality payments
Shadow enterprise secretary Jonathan Reynolds mentioned the Authorities “hasn’t completed sufficient” to sort out rising vitality payments and the broader cost-of-living disaster.
Talking on Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday about proposals for investing in nuclear vitality, he mentioned: “I believe none of that needs to be used as a smokescreen to get away from the true difficulty, which is, proper now, the price of residing is completely excessive.
“Vitality payments are an enormous a part of that, and the federal government hasn’t completed sufficient. There’s no approach they’ll say they’ve completed sufficient – the scheme they put ahead, I believe, the place the Chancellor has provided to lend us our personal cash and pay it again over 5 years, is totally unrealistic and doesn’t meet the size of the problem.
“What we need to do in fact is that windfall tax, supply individuals actual assist – £600 for over one-third of households off their vitality payments – as a result of that’s the size of what’s required.
“Regardless of the long-term vitality technique the Authorities will unveil, it could’t get away from the actual fact they’ve obtained to take some motion now to assist individuals.”
Jonathan Reynolds mentioned he helps funding in additional nuclear vitality to assist abate the rising price of family payments.
Shadow enterprise secretary says Authorities ‘hasn’t completed sufficient’ to sort out rising vitality payments
The shadow enterprise secretary informed Sky’s Sophy Ridge On Sunday: “We do assist extra nuclear within the system alongside that growth of renewables.
“I believe the hazard is that, frankly the person commissioning selections on nuclear reactors all depend upon the value you possibly can obtain – they are often very costly for those who haven’t been in a position to get the correct deal and the correct personal sector companions to try this.”
Aisha Rimi3 April 2022 09:39