Northern Clean Energy Declaration

EDM number 1287 in 2015-16, proposed by Greg Mulholland on 21/03/2016.
Categorised under the topics of Climate change, Energy, Energy conservation, Industry and Renewable energy.

That this House notes the north of England was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution during the nineteenth century and the heart of British industry in the twentieth; believes the northern economy can play a leading role in the biggest transformation of the world's infrastructure since the switch from wood to coal power; further believes that after a winter of floods, new ways to meet our travel, energy and communication needs must not be delayed, and that new infrastructure has to be futureproof; welcomes that the North is already designing, building and exporting new low carbon products and services from wind turbines to electric vehicles; believes this will enable communities to shape their own energy futures, as towns and villages across the North have done since Baywind in Cumbria, the UK's first-ever renewable energy co-operative; believes that the future people want is one with clean air, healthy people and resilient communities and that people want to protect landscapes, like Lindisfarne in the east and the Ainsdale Dunes in the west, from the impacts of climate change; therefore gives its full support to the Northern Clean Energy Declaration, signed by 70 organisations including community, business, faith and campaign groups; and calls on the Government to ensure clean energy is at the heart of its economic policies, to take steps to encourage the development of renewables in the North and to back clean energy for the North in order to reassert the region's place at the forefront of the world's economy.

This motion has been signed by a total of 1 MPs.