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Proceeding contribution from Philip Dunne (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 13 January 2010. It occurred during Opposition day on Energy Security.


Energy Security

My hon. Friend is being characteristically generous-hearted to the Secretary of State. Is this not the Secretary of State who, only a few days ago, told the media that we did not need to worry about gas storage in this country because we had such large offshore oil and gas deposits underground in the North sea? If that is the case, and if that is the justification for his predecessors' failure in not providing more gas storage facilities, why has the other major western industrialised country, the United States, which has substantial underground deposits of oil and gas, been creating significant strategic storage capacity over the past 10 years?


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
503 c755-6 
Session
2009-10
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Coal fired power stations Electricity generation Energy supply Fuels Natural gas Nuclear power stations Prices Security Storage Renewable energy Fossil fuelled power stations
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk