Meeting of the Parliament 06 December 2016
No—I am afraid not.
Let us talk about how the UK is now in second place, behind Denmark, in the most recent climate change performance index. Let us talk about how the UK Government has pledged to end the use of coal in our energy mix by 2025, and let us not forget that £290 million has been announced for the next round of contracts for difference funding in order to support less-established technologies including offshore wind, biomass, wave, tidal stream and geothermal projects.
I represent a party that is committed not only to ambitious emissions targets, as Alexander Burnett said—that was demonstrated by the UK’s continued leading stance at the 21st session of the conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP21—but to our energy security and to creating a genuine energy mix. I represent a party that is committed to an energy mix that includes shale gas, unlike the party that imposed a moratorium on even exploration—I repeat, exploration—for shale gas in Scotland, and which claims to be environmentally aware but supports the shipping to Grangemouth of shale gas from halfway around the world in massive supertankers.