Posts Tagged “energy”
Ed Davey shows other Lib Dem ministers how to put forward a savvy argument within Coalition
by Stephen Tall on November 25, 2012
I was very struck, reading Ed Davey’s interview with The Guardian this weekend, how he chose to describe the deal-making process between the two Coalition parties over the energy bill: Davey admits that the failure to secure a decarbonisation target (…)
LDVideo: Davey on energy policies and climate change action
by Stephen Tall on May 23, 2012
Lib Dem energy and climate change secretary Edward Davey was asked this week by Andrew Neil why people were being asked to pay more for their power while many were struggling. He said it was “right to pursue climate change policies” and told Andrew Neil that prices of onshore, offshore and solar renewable sources were [...]
Huhne pledges to do ‘the right thing’ as he commits to nuclear power
by Stephen Tall on October 15, 2011
This week saw Lib Dem energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne make a major speech to the Royal Society on the future of nuclear power, with the Coalition committed to a series of new reactors adjacent to existing sites. The Coalition’s policy has long been trailed — a year ago, Chris put forward his [...]
LDVideo at Conference | A Chris Huhne double-bill
by Stephen Tall on September 21, 2011
At Birmingham and so missing out on how the Lib Dem conference is being reported? Not at Birmingham and so missing out on seeing Lib Dem MPs and government ministers up close and personal? We hope these videos will help re-connect you… It was Lib Dem energy secretary Chris Huhne’s day in the limelight yesterday, [...]
Lib Dem MPs set to rebel over ‘back-door’ nuclear power subsidy
by Stephen Tall on July 2, 2011
‘Liberal Democrats have long opposed any new nuclear construction. Conservatives, by contrast, are committed to allowing the replacement of existing nuclear power stations provided that they are subject to the normal planning process for major projects (under a new National Planning Statement), and also provided that they receive no public subsidy.’ So declares the Coalition [...]
LDV survey: 68% of Lib Dem members back nuclear as party of UK’s energy mix
by Stephen Tall on August 28, 2010
Lib Dem Voice has polled our members-only forum to discover what Lib Dem members think of a variety of key issues, and what you make of the Lib Dems’ and Government’s performance to date. Almost 600 party members have responded, and we’ll be publishing the full results of our survey in the next few days. [...]
NEW POLL: Should nuclear power be part of the UK’s energy mix?
by Stephen Tall on August 9, 2010
Climate change and energy secretary Chris Huhne was on Radio 4 this morning with what will have been, for many Lib Dems, a surprise announcement: that the Lib Dem / Conservative coalition government is fully behind the opening of a new nuclear power station in eight years’ time. Arguing in favour of in favour of [...]
NEW POLL: what’s your view on nuclear power?
by Stephen Tall on April 16, 2009
Yesterday the Government released a list of 11 sites in England and Wales where new nuclear power stations could be built, with the aim of having the first reactors operational within a decade. The Lib Dems’ shadow energy and climate (…)
