How Green is Our Future?
Today’s Northern Echo has a report on yesterday’s Smith Insitute debate, including the following quotes from Nick:
Nick Brown, the Government Chief Whip and Minister for the North-East, replied: “I will do everything I can to make sure we don’t go back to mass unemployment. Windpower is the only renewable energy source that you can easily get to market. There’s a very good claim for it to be offshore because everybody agrees with it, but nobody wants it next to their house.”
He predicted “the greatest change in the employment base since the decline of shipbuilding” would occur on the north bank of the Tyne where there are plans for a turbine building industry.
“Jobs will be in their thousands and they will endure not just for one generation but two and beyond, as then advances in wavepower will be developed.”