Huhne on the Isle of Wight’s Eco Island Initiative (Twickenham & Richmond Liberal Democrats)

Huhne on the Isle of Wight’s Eco Island Initiative

May 22, 2011 10:49 AM

eco island wight • [May 19] Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight, Conservative): WHAT recent assessment he has made of the Isle of Wight's eco island initiative.

Chris Huhne: I recently visited my hon. Friend's constituency and met several businesses and individuals involved in the Isle of Wight eco island initiative. I applaud the initiative, which is showing real leadership in bringing the local community and businesses together, in reducing carbon emissions and in helping to build a prosperous low-carbon economy.

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Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight, Conservative): Will the Secretary of State join me in congratulating David Green on the way in which he is moving the eco island initiative forward, and will my right hon. Friend visit the island again to see for himself not only the eco island project, but other green technology companies?

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Chris Huhne: I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question. As he knows, I can see the island from my constituency, and I suspect that another visit is not going to be that far off, but I certainly do join him in congratulating David Green. The Department of Energy and Climate Change has been very pleased to support carbon reduction on the Isle of Wight with a £500,000 grant, for example, through the low-carbon communities challenge, which has been used to install renewable measures in a number of properties in the village of Chale Green. I am very impressed by the way in which the whole initiative is beginning to take off and to have a real local impact.

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