02 Aug Grant Shapps: Government has been ‘moving very fast’ on renewable energy
ENERGY Secretary Grant Shapps said the Government has been “moving very fast” on renewables as he announced a further £100 billion investment in green energy.
He told GB News: “We’ve certainly seen in the world what happens if you’re reliant as a world on a tyrant like Putin.
“We were affected in a secondary way, because what he did [he] pushed up the price of oil and gas on the global market worldwide, despite the fact we provide quite a bit of our own and despite the fact actually we have about 40% of our electricity last year was generated by renewables and nuclear, up from just 7% when we came to power, so it’s not that we’ve not been doing anything.
“We’ve been moving very fast.”
In a discussion during Breakfast with Stephen Dixon and Ellie Costello: “I’m meeting today with a bunch of energy companies at Number 10 who are going to invest £100 billion in renewables and that’s great.
“Everyone supports this country’s transition to net zero, but you cannot get there by telling people we’re simply going to stop using oil and gas.
“The only way to do that would be to tell people don’t put your gas boiler on, don’t drive a petrol car, and do that almost instantaneously.
“Unless you do that, what you’re really saying is, we’re not going to dig our own oil and gas, we’ll import it instead and that’s basically Labour’s policy on this.”
Asked about housing migrants on the Bibby Stockholm barge, he said: “It seems to me perfectly obvious that we shouldn’t be using hotels, hundreds of thousands even rooms in hotels, to house people waiting asylum applications and most of all, that we have to stop the trade in people being brought across the channel by criminal gangs, and what is most revealing is the every single attempt we’ve made has been voted against Keir Starmer’s Labour Party who have no plan at all stop this…
“If it takes a few more days, it takes few more days.”
