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This brings us back to the argument that I was making earlier in Committee about the use, for instance, of oil-seed rape to produce aviation fuel, where CO₂ is involved all the way along. There is growing concern about the Drax power station, which sits there belching out smoke all the time, polluting the atmosphere and producing CO2 emissions—all in the name of renewable energy. We have to think seriously about this in the future, because it makes no sense to talk about renewables when, at the same time, we are polluting the atmosphere and producing the CO₂ emissions that we are trying to control.