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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 October 2024

Debate

Crown Estate Bill [HL]

Contribution

These systems can be operated on land. This is the key thing: what is happening here is that an industry is not having to pay for the pollution it causes. It is destroying a public good in order to profit and the alternative, which is to use closed tank systems on land, is of course more expensive—but it is more expensive because they are being allowed to damage our environment at no cost to themselves.

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