Extract from Commons debate on the Queen's Speech - Oct 24
Friday, 25 October 2019 08:44
Kirsty Blackman (Aberdeen North) (SNP):...This is a hugely
concerning direction of travel and it comes despite climate change
and things potentially warming up. We need to have
energy-efficiency measures. For example, if we want to decarbonise
our gas networks, we need to do things such as adding hydrogen and
Biomethane into the mix. We also need to do things such as ensuring
that we have incredibly energy-efficient homes, be that in new
homes or through retrofitting older homes. Aberdeen has...Request free trial
(Aberdeen North)
(SNP):...This is a hugely concerning direction of travel and it
comes despite climate change and things potentially warming up. We
need to have energy-efficiency measures. For example, if we want to
decarbonise our gas networks, we need to do things such as adding
hydrogen and Biomethane into the mix. We also need to do things
such as ensuring that we have incredibly energy-efficient homes, be
that in new homes or through retrofitting older homes. Aberdeen has
a campaign to put insulation in granite tenements, which are
particularly difficult to insulate and particularly common in
Aberdeen. That has made a massive improvement not just in terms of
energy efficiency and climate change targets, but in terms of the
wealth of those people, who no longer have to pay those immensely
high heating bills...
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