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4:40 PM Panel Discussion: How Corporations Can Drive Collaboration and Innovation Incomes By Tapping Into Academia and Education
The academia and research world provide extensive and untapped benefits for corporations looking into innovation. Both of these have access to a host of resources, funding and human capital which would be invaluable for partnerships with industry. In this session, our panelists will explore the following questions:
- What is the value of students and what are reasons for companies to incorporate them in innovation programs?
- How can we prepare undergraduates and postgraduates to be work ready?
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It happens from time to time, especially when you are creating. Some form of writers block or whatever the same thing means for photographers. Basically, you lose interest in shooting, or the camera itself. This has happened to me in the past but usually in the winter months. It has been several months since I have taken an active interest in pulling the shutter. Slowly though it is coming back to me and I expect to be doing my thing again. – ©John Masters
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If you're feeling a little bombarded by all the choices on Netflix, we're here to give you the lowdown on our favorite titles coming to the streaming giant in July. A ton of titles have rolled in as of July 1, so we've narrowed it down to a few movies that we're excited about.
First up is the Jurassic Park franchise. All three of the original 1990's Jurassic Park movies have come to Netflix, so get your devices out and check out the OGs before you see Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
The Boondock Saints with Willem Dafoe arrived July 1, as well as Happy Gilmore, easily the best Adam Sandler movie on the streaming service. Joining them will be Interview With A Vampire and Menace II Society.
Moving into the current century, the futuristic love story Her featuring Joaquin Phoenix is now on Netflix, as is the live-action version of Scooby Doo, which features some of our favorite stars from the early 2000s like Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and Freddie Prinze Jr.--fun fact, those two got married the same year that this movie came out.
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Steppes of Augrudeen Map Dice Bag
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This beautiful dice bag is made from the Steppes of Augrudeen Map fabric, designed by Deven Rue of Rue Ink. Deven creates incredible work and I'm proud to present dice bags made from her illustrations. This dice bag showcases her unique mapping style.
The dice bag measures 5″ tall with a 4″ square base, a design that allows your dice bag to sit open on the table for easy access to your dice during long gaming sessions. Each Greyed Out dice bag will hold about 160 dice, and closes securely with a double drawstring, with the option for cord locks.
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Lindemans Bin 50 Shiraz 2007 - $11.95
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Deep red currant colour. Aromas of raspberry, leather, with traces of spice, vanilla and dark chocolate. Rich and juicy with firm tannins, good acid spine, dried berry flavours and a nicely tart finish. Very good body and length, it's a bit young yet, but sprightly and would suit chili, pizza or cheese fondue. (LCBO 145367)
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We must be mindful of the costs of low-carbon technologies. Some of them, such as solar, are within sight of needing no subsidy at all. Let us facilitate their expansion, and not obstruct it through the planning system.
Onshore wind potentially offers good value for money, and in some areas it is acceptable. I am concerned that we may turn our backs on a good value for money technology altogether. Onshore wind will always be cheaper than offshore wind. Although local concerns must always be respected, indeed paramount, we should not block its deployment in those places where it is acceptable. It is right to pilot lagoons, but we should persist in that process only if we are reasonably sure that the cost will fall, because the initial cost is undeniably extremely high.
While I am talking about energy, let me just mention nuclear power. I hope that, early in the next Parliament, we shall see a conclusion of the tortuous negotiation
over Hinkley Point. I urge the Government to seek further ways of cutting the cost of new nuclear power stations—possibly by using their own fantastic and well deserved credit rating, which means that they are able to borrow more cheaply than any other borrower in the world—perhaps by funding the cost of construction, which is a great element of the ultimate cost of nuclear power, and then selling the power station on to a private operator for its operational lifetime. We should also consider how using tried and tested technology in nuclear power could help us to cut costs.
This was a magnificent Budget from an outstanding Chancellor and a terrific coalition Government. Anybody who believes that the quality of their lives and the prosperity of their families will be affected by the performance of the economy would be certifiably insane not to vote Conservative on
with him—he was Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for three years—probably more often than I have ever debated with anyone.
This is definitely the last time I will speak in this House, as we are only 10 days away from Dissolution. I trust, therefore, that if I make a speech that is extraordinarily supportive of the Government, no one can suggest that it is an attempt to get a job. The Whip may record the voluptuous praise that I heap on the Chancellor and his colleagues, but it is entirely disinterested. It is really what I believe—just as if the Pope got up and said that he did not believe in God any more.
The plaudits that have been showered on the Chancellor are fully deserved. Under his stewardship, the economy has moved from disaster to triumph. The long-term economic plan and the northern powerhouse are essential for our future success, just as they were essential to put right the ghastly mess we inherited in 2010.
One reason why I got interested in politics many years ago was that, in the 1970s, Britain was going through an appalling economic period, and as a business person travelling abroad I was embarrassed to say where I came from because we had become a laughing stock. That was all reversed in the 11 years of Margaret Thatcher's Government, but she and her Chancellors would have given their right arms for economic statistics like ours: the fastest growth, record employment, record low inflation, and a recovery that is balanced throughout the regions. Those goals were only partially attained under Margaret Thatcher's Government. All credit goes to this Government and this Chancellor for sticking with the long-term economic plan when it was under fire, not just from the Opposition but from a great many other critics.
In the 21st century, there are three essential pillars for any economy that wants to play in the premier league: first, a world-class infrastructure; secondly, top-class education; and thirdly, a tax and regulation system that is supportive of business. Judged by those three criteria, the Budget is a big move in the right direction. Transport in particular is an essential component of a modern economy, and Britain has been let down for many years by an out-of-date, 20th-century transport system, with congested roads, a failing railway and inadequate airports. I am a terrific supporter of High Speed 2, which is essential for the development of the north. If people cannot get somewhere, they will not invest there, jobs will not be created and the area will suffer a relative decline, so we need High Speed 2.
I am particularly delighted by the northern transport strategy. It is a wholly welcome development and another potentially transformational policy. It will be terrific to be able to get from Sheffield to Manchester in half an hour. One only needs to consider China to see how far
our rail system has fallen behind what can be achieved. Last time I was there, just before Christmas, I took a train from Beijing to Wuhan. I was standing up, drinking coffee, talking on my mobile without holding on to any support. I rang a constituent and said, "The indicator says 320 km per hour"—that is 200 mph. We have made improvements, but even on High Speed 1, which does not go quite as fast as the Chinese trains, people need to hold on as they ricochet from side to side. The future is available to us, but we have got to grasp it quickly. I urge the Government to press on as fast as possible with the northern transport strategy.
I want to make a plea about airports. We urgently need an early decision on Heathrow. Without more connections to the great cities of the Asian economies, which will be a key part of the 21st century, we are going to struggle to develop the opportunities in those markets, which are essential to the success of our long-term economic plan.
I have strong—perhaps impeccable—green credentials, and I advocate investment in transport because a modern transport system can help to reduce emissions from the transport sector. Less congested roads and skies are better for the environment, in that they can lead to lower emissions. A continued modal shift from road to rail is also very beneficial, and we need that for freight as well as for passengers.
Equally important is a modern IT infrastructure. Let me now enter a plea on behalf of my constituents, who have shown such wisdom over the past seven elections by returning me to this House with comfortable majorities—I have confidence that they will elect my excellent successor, James Cartlidge, with an equally comfortable majority. My plea is that, before the end of the next Parliament, high-speed broadband should finally reach those parts of Suffolk that are still denied access to this absolutely essential business tool.
The second pillar is education. I strongly welcome the extra support for universities, which has been announced several times by the Chancellor in recent statements. The UK's higher education system is a jewel in our crown. I welcome the support announced in the autumn statement for the Henry Royce institute, of which the university of Sheffield is a beneficiary, and the further support announced on Wednesday for the midlands. In particular, I welcome the energy research accelerator, which will contribute to another very important area in which Britain has, potentially, a big lead. Perhaps that programme could include Sheffield, which is almost in the midlands.
The direct link between that support for universities and science, under the leadership of my right hon. Friend
Education is also about schools. I hope that the next Parliament will ensure that the schools budget is protected. Of course I understand why we protect the budgets for health, international development and defence, all of which are important candidates, but none of them is central to the economy in the way that education is, and
the education budget is the one that, above all, needs our protection. I am a particular fan of free schools, and the Stour Valley community college in my constituency is an outstanding first-wave example of a free school. I was pleased to have the opportunity to fight for its establishment, and I urge the Government to press on with the expansion of those schools.
I shall touch briefly on the third pillar. A sympathetic corporation tax regime does exist in this country and must be maintained. Regulations have also been improved, but the big issue that we have not yet tackled is the planning system, which inhibits all kinds of development. To achieve economic prosperity, we need to streamline our planning system. I urge my hon. Friends in the next Government to make that a top priority. The often hidden but enormous cost of planning delays handicaps British business: it makes us less competitive, raises consumer prices and obstructs enterprise. That problem is particularly acute for infrastructure projects and we really must tackle that obstacle.
Finally, let me touch briefly on energy policy. The Budget announced support for tidal lagoons. I warmly welcome Britain's leadership in researching and encouraging a variety of low-carbon technologies, including several marine energy technologies in which we are world leaders. I pay tribute to the work that is being done and I celebrate the huge expansion of investment in low-carbon electricity generation that has been achieved under this Government.]]>
I thank my hon. Friend the Minister for his generous comments about my Committee's work and about my personal contribution to discussions on these issues over a number of years—that is very much appreciated. This is likely to be the last time I speak in Westminster Hall, although I cannot say I have great regrets about having only 19 sitting days left. Perhaps I should apologise to my hon. Friend, who is also my Whip, because I may have missed a Division last night, although the opportunity for doing that is diminishing very quickly—this is the first time I have used a debate to acknowledge such things.
It is important, as I think all those who took part said, that we approach these issues in a way that is long term, bipartisan and often consensual, although that does not mean that there cannot be vigorous debate and disagreement. In an industry where the effects of decisions made now will be felt not in 10 years' time, but in 30, 40, 50 or even 60, we need to work hard to get the right answers. My Committee's work has been consistently driven by our preference, first, to act constructively and, secondly, to look at the evidence first—it is very much an evidence-driven Committee, and I am sure that will continue in the next Parliament.
It is important that we maintain cross-party consensus about the importance, above all, of tackling climate change. That is the central issue for policy makers in the 21st century, and it will transcend all sorts of existing anxieties on the security front. The truth is that the prosperity of the human species is directly threatened by dangerous and irreversible climate change. Actions that we take will affect generations unborn for centuries to come.
Carbon capture and storage was mentioned, although I omitted to mention it. When I was making a few notes this morning, I was conscious of the fact that I did not want to take up too much time—as it happened, there was no shortage of time. Carbon capture and storage is the one technology the world most urgently needs, and it is the one thing that could transform the economics of fossil fuels, perhaps allowing us to utilise fossil fuel reserves that, at the moment, will never be utilised. It is therefore worth giving it the greatest support.
I am sometimes frustrated that the private sector is not more enthusiastic about carbon capture and storage. Given the resources available to companies in the fossil fuel industry, I would like to see them championing the cause of research on carbon capture and storage more than they are. That should not be left to taxpayers and Governments—I am not saying it is left entirely to them, but they are shouldering a lot of the burden. We should definitely prioritise attempts to achieve economically viable carbon capture and storage. There is also a detailed point of great importance about whether we can tweak the way we support other low carbon technologies in a way that directly incentivises more research into carbon capture and storage.
The future of the levy control framework was mentioned several times, and it is important. It is easy for laymen
to overlook the impact of the cost of capital on consumer prices in an industry as capital-intensive as energy. The cost of capital is directly related to the predictability and stability of policy—another reason why achieving a bipartisan consensus as far as possible is important. I am tempted to go down the track—the hon. Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West already knows what I am going to say before I have said it—of whether an energy price freeze is a good way to reduce the cost of capital. However, I will not—our respective views on that are well known.
I regularly talk to some very big investors, and I am pleased that they acknowledge that the UK regime, which has evolved over time, with a lot of thought from all sides, now offers quite attractive opportunities. It is not just that the rule of law is respected here; we now have a regime that looks capable of sustaining a framework in which long-term investments will be attractive. That will be to the benefit of everyone.
I warmly welcome my hon. Friend the Minister's responses on a wide range of issues, including the potential for demand-side response measures. I just reiterate one concern. Bringing in back-up generating capacity at short notice is vital to trim the peaks and to enable us to get by with lower overall generation capacity, and an increasing number of people, including some individuals, are ready to provide capacity. However, that is just part of the story. The other part is that, in the long term, there will be an even greater prize if we can facilitate consumption cuts at short notice by building into equipment chips that automatically switch off air conditioning when the energy price rises to a certain level, and so on. That is another helpful aspect, and we are just beginning to scratch the surface of the potential of these things.
My hon. Friend sounded a measured tone about shale gas, and that is welcome. When the Daily Mail heard about shale gas, it thought it was the answer to all our problems. Others, perhaps on the extreme green wing, say that we should under no circumstances contemplate fracking in this country. There is a middle way, and I hope that whoever is in government will take it. There will be a prize for doing these things fairly quickly. There is an opportunity. We are good at designing regulatory systems in this country. If we move ahead, we could shape the whole EU regulatory framework for shale gas during 2015, and other countries might follow, which would give us benefits in the supply chain.
My final message is that, above all, the future has to be low carbon, for reasons we all understand, but it in no way needs to be low growth. Our economy can be—indeed, it is more likely to be—high growth if it is also low carbon. That is the way forward for the UK, the EU and the world.
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answer is, "Let's use this more efficiently. Let's make sure we can avoid the peaks in demand." We may well not need any net increase in total capacity ever again.
It is therefore, in my view, unfortunate—I put it no more strongly than that—that the Government's principal adviser on these decisions is a privately owned company whose profits are made for its shareholders by investing in more transmission capacity. The National Grid, in my view, is seriously conflicted in this matter. Quite understandably, it has a regulated UK domestic business, the profits of which are directly increased if Ofgem signs off investment programmes involving more transmission, and more transmission is obviously needed if there are more power stations. Its profits, in the UK market, could go down if we make a sufficient success of demand-side response. We cannot hide from that conflict. I do not cast any aspersion on the integrity of National Grid's management. They are doing an absolutely straightforward and proper job for their shareholders within the regulatory framework. However, we must not allow that to have an influence on how we see the capacity market develop.
The first round of auctions in the capacity market produced, I have to say, a pitiful allocation to demand-side respondents. This issue is extremely urgent. I know that DECC is looking at it, and a review is taking place of how the auction will work at the end of this year. It is very urgent that we ensure that the next auction has a much more level playing field, so that demand-side respondents are able to bid into this market and get a bigger share of it.
It is a shaming outcome that the principal beneficiaries of the capacity market auction appear to be the most polluting technologies, such as diesel farms and coal-fired power stations. That is exactly what we hoped to avoid. The review of the capacity mechanism is of great importance. Allied to that, we should ensure that as smart meters and other smart technologies are rolled out, they incorporate mechanisms that allow time-of-use pricing to be introduced widely in a way that consumers can easily understand, and that does not penalise poorer consumers. Time-of-use pricing, allied to the demand-side response contribution, has the capacity to cut costs for consumers and reduce the need to maintain excessive amounts of capacity at all times.
Let me give a plug to the importance of the carbon price. The biggest factor, in the long term, in investment decisions favouring low carbon technology will be a significant carbon price, which might be brought about through carbon taxes or through emissions trading. Personally, I have a preference for the latter; a cap-and-trade system has the great merit of making total emissions predictable. If there is a cap, there is a cap. If we rely entirely on carbon taxes, no one can be sure about the elasticity of the market's response to a particular carbon tax.
I am pleased that the UK Government have been on the side of those arguing for faster and more radical reform of the EU emissions trading system. Unfortunately, it is a work in progress, and there is still a lot to be done to try to make sure that the system is capable of driving a significant carbon price before 2020. A carbon price across the EU ETS will not penalise any one country, because every country will have to face the same imposition. Those who fear that a higher carbon price in the form
of a domestic carbon tax would simply drive industry to other countries would not have that fear if the price were driven through the EU ETS.
I hope that the British Government will be among the leaders in the promotion of linkage between the EU ETS and emerging emissions trading systems in other parts of the world. My Committee published a report earlier this month, "Linking emissions trading systems". We are encouraged, and even impressed, by the progress made over a short space of time by the emissions trading systems in China. We are also encouraged by the establishment of an emissions trading system in California, which is already linked to one of the Canadian provinces.
Emissions trading is an idea that now has critical mass, even though five years ago it seemed to be faltering. If China rolls out a national system during the 13th five-year plan, as I am confident that it will, a third of the world's population will live in areas covered by emissions trading. If emissions trading spreads in the US, as I think it will, more than half the world's GDP will come from places where emissions trading operates. The goal—in my view, the wonderful goal—of a global cap-and-trade system starts to come into view. I hope that that will be kept in mind at the Paris COP meeting at the end of the year.
The fifth and most recent assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change proposed the concept of a maximum level of greenhouse gas emissions that can safely be allowed if the world is to keep within the target of an average rise in temperature of no more than 2° centigrade. A maximum safe level of emissions leads naturally to the idea of a global cap-and-trade system, with that maximum as the cap. Although that dream will not be realised in the next five years, we should keep it in mind. The danger is that we will lock ourselves into systems that are incompatible with the achievement of that goal.
In conclusion, I believe that if Britain decarbonises its electricity generation system, our economy will become more competitive, not less. International concern over climate change will intensify quickly over the next few years. That will lead to a significant carbon price, either from emissions trading or from carbon taxes. Countries, industries, companies and perhaps even households that have taken the lead in decarbonising their economies, business models and patterns of consumption will enjoy greater prosperity, not less. Decarbonising electricity will also promote security of energy supply and accelerate the cutting of greenhouse gas emissions. I hope that Britain will continue to be a leader in that process. In the way in which it achieves that leadership, I hope it will keep clearly in mind the importance of getting the best value for money in each decision that is made to achieve decarbonisation. I emphasise the fact that the decisions we make today have a long-term effect.
I believe that the Government can claim to be the greenest Government ever because of what they have done in the past four and a half years and, importantly, because of their ambitions for the future. The truth is that the benchmark for the accolade of "the greenest Government ever" is not a demanding one, because no previous Government could really claim to have been particularly green. The next five years will, therefore, be judged against a benchmark that is slightly more demanding, and that benchmark will become progressively more demanding in future. I look forward very much to
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Britain is of course the leader on offshore wind worldwide, so we have already achieved a great deal. Interestingly, there are some relatively shallow waters in Guangdong province in south-eastern China, and quite a big push is being made on offshore wind there as well. That may help the process of bringing the price down. Offshore wind will remain an important part of the energy mix, but I am concerned to ensure that we do not allocate too much of the resource available through the levy control framework to offshore wind.
Last year, we had an announcement about the final investment decision enabling contracts, which I think were announced last April and used up just over half the available resource under the levy control framework. A large chunk of that was allocated under contracts that were at higher prices than those today. Things are always easier with the benefit of hindsight, but looking back, I think that in our anxiety to get the process under way, we may have gone a bit further than we needed to at that early stage and are locked into some relatively expensive contracts. Be that as it may, the benefits of competition and the continuing fall in costs are reflected in today's strike prices. I therefore urge the Government to be as technology-blind as possible in the future. They should leave local objections to individual proposals or projects to be resolved through the planning system, and try to help the best value for money technologies to continue to cut costs and to flourish.
I have already mentioned that I think that solar will reach grid parity. I think that onshore wind also has the potential to reach grid parity, and if that happens and a local community are happy to see some turbines in their neighbourhood, why should they not be allowed to construct them?
Let me move on to gas, which is not everyone's idea of a low carbon technology, although compared with unabated coal, it certainly is a lower carbon technology. The problem for Britain with gas is that our reserves are running down, so we are importing a great deal of gas. Luckily, a lot of it comes from our friendly neighbour, Norway, and we are not dependent to any meaningful extent on Russian gas for our consumption. However, we are importing a lot of liquefied natural gas. Interestingly—this came out in the debate that we had a few weeks ago on what was then the Infrastructure Bill—David MacKay's report in September 2013 pointed out that net greenhouse gas emissions from imported LNG are actually higher than those from shale gas extracted by fracking, so if we continue to use large amounts of imported LNG instead of exploiting what may be significant domestic reserves in the form of shale gas, using fracking, which my Select Committee has reported on twice and regards as potentially a safe technology, we are locking ourselves into a slightly higher emission pattern.
I believe that, no matter what, in the next 15 to 20 years gas will remain an important part of our energy mix. It is completely unrealistic for people to assume that we can get by without consuming a great deal of gas, so we should now press on with exploiting our shale gas reserves. To do that, or even to determine how great those reserves may be, we need to start drilling. I regret the fact that there appears to be continued delay, caused in part by local opposition, to embracing that opportunity.
Britain could be the leader in Europe on shale gas. If we get on with it now, we could write the European rulebook on shale gas. There would be benefits for contractors, supply chain companies and others. There would be an economic advantage for the UK if we delayed no further and pressed on with shale gas, as other countries would then follow our lead. They would overcome their current caution and follow us down the shale gas route. I therefore hope that we will not miss that opportunity. It is just as unrealistic to assume that
we can do without lots of gas in the next 15 years as it is to assume that if we close down all our nuclear power stations, they can be replaced by low carbon renewables.
Of course, the lowest carbon energy of all is the energy that we do not use. In this context, I again urge the Government to promote demand-side response. There is still a great deal of misunderstanding about demand-side response. Many people think that it means imposing power cuts on consumers without notice and against their will. It means nothing of the sort. Demand-side response today involves harnessing the latest technology to facilitate voluntary cuts in consumption at peak periods by consumers who are paid for their ability to switch off their power at very short notice. The prize, if we embrace demand-side response, is enormous. It means that we can cut the total electricity generating capacity that has to be maintained. At the moment, we have to have high levels of capacity available even though it might be used only for a few days in the whole year. That is an incredibly wasteful arrangement. If we have a vibrant demand-side response sector, we will not have to have so much capacity. Every consumer will benefit from that, because at the moment every consumer is subsidising capacity that is scarcely ever used.]]>
Let me move on to renewables, on which there has been excellent progress since 2010. In stimulating new investment in renewables, the regime established by the electricity market reform process and all the accompanying legislation, which some of us have laboured for many hours to improve, is now one of the best in the world from the point of view of investors. Today's news about the contracts for difference allocations confirms that. There is a lot of interest in investment in renewables here in the UK, and I warmly welcome the success of the CfD regime.
There is, however, a clearly topical issue in this regard that relates directly to my concerns about value for money. The strike prices announced today remind us—much more clearly than the previous, somewhat opaque renewables obligation certificates system ever did, certainly to the
layman—of the relative costs of different renewables technologies. Of course, it is great news for consumers that the cost of solar is falling and the strike price is now significantly lower. The rapid and considerable fall in the cost of solar is partly a reflection of the enormous expansion of the solar industry in China, and that has had direct benefits for British consumers. It is now clear that solar can reach grid parity before long, even in this climate.
I am also delighted that today's announcement makes it clear that a significant amount of new capacity will be provided by onshore wind. I am aware that it is an extremely controversial technology, particularly among many of my hon. Friends, but as we can see today, the truth is that onshore wind offers good value for money, relatively speaking. Of course, there are some—perhaps many—places in which onshore wind turbines are simply unacceptable, for environmental and other reasons, but I would regret it very much if, as a matter of policy, we turned our back on onshore wind altogether. That would turn out to be an expensive mistake, because even with prices for offshore wind falling—again, I welcome the strike prices announced today—onshore wind remains substantially cheaper.
My anxiety about offshore wind is that I do not see the potential for the huge fall in cost that occurred with solar. A large part of the cost of offshore wind is in the installation process of planting and anchoring a turbine in deep and rough waters. There may be a limited number of days on which the process can even be carried out, and the cost of the equipment needed on site is very high. That places a limit on the potential further reduction in the cost of offshore wind. I hope it will come down somewhat—I am sure it will—but I do not envisage a dramatic collapse in cost.]]>
I stress that my commitment to low carbon energy goes back more than 20 years. When I served in John Major's Government as a Minister in what was then the Department for the Environment, among other things I dealt with climate change, which in 1993 was much less understood or even talked about. If someone mentioned climate change at a social occasion, people would look at them as though they were slightly strange. However, it did not take me long to be convinced that climate change was occurring—the scientific evidence was powerful even then—and that the changes we were observing were caused at least in part, and in my view in substantial part, by the increased concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in the past 200 years, which was a result of man-made activity and the industrial revolution in particular.
As I recall, in the 1990s the scale of the problem was much less certain. Today, the need for substantial cuts in greenhouse gas emissions is widely, even if not universally, accepted. As we approach the Paris conference of parties at the end of the year, the world's attention will be increasingly focused on how we can achieve a more rapid decarbonisation of our economies.
Last November we had the historic joint announcement in Beijing by President Obama and President Xi of China in which they committed to cut emissions. Such a commitment would have been completely unthinkable even three years ago: for the US President to say what
he did and for the Chinese to say that their emissions would peak on a date not later than 2030 simply could not have happened. In my judgment and experience, for the Chinese to say publicly that something will happen not later than 2030 means that they are absolutely certain it will happen well before that. I warmly welcome the greater determination of the US Administration to engage with this issue, which is still extremely controversial in parts of the United States.
Here at home we had an historic announcement this month. The three leaders of the major parties united in a public joint commitment to continue to take action to tackle climate change. I do not recall any other major political issue being addressed in quite the same unanimous way just two months before an election. I welcome both those important political developments.
Equally important is the transformation in business' attitude. Twenty years ago, much of industry was reluctant to acknowledge the need to engage in finding solutions to climate change. It felt that such demands for reduced dependence on fossil fuels were a threat to their business models. Today, by way of contrast, in many parts of the world business leaders are ahead of policy makers in recognising both the urgency and the scale of the need to move away from models that are dependent on fossil fuel consumption.
I warmly congratulate the Government for confirming the fourth carbon budget for the 2023-27 period. That challenging budget, which was set four years ago, was reviewed last year and, to the coalition's enormous credit, it confirmed it. I am sure that in private, parts of Whitehall argued strongly for a dilution of those targets, but they were confirmed.
I also warmly congratulate the European Union. That is not something Conservative colleagues frequently do, but its recent, excellent decision, supported by the UK, to adopt a cut in greenhouse gas emissions of 40% for its 2020 target was at the upper end of aspirations. That is good for two reasons. First, it sets a challenging figure that will force businesses and consumers across the EU to think about how they can help achieve it.
Secondly, it is a rational target. By setting an overall target for a cut in emissions, the need for any subsidiary targets is largely removed. I have always been concerned about the artificial imposition of targets for the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources. They are not the right way forward; it is up to member states to decide how much they want to use renewables and other technologies. The European Union achieved a good outcome.
Achieving the UK domestic target, which is enshrined in law, and the EU target will require in particular substantial decarbonisation of the electricity generation industry. We have the technology that makes that possible; the question is whether we are willing to adopt it. In effect, a transformation must take place in the energy industry in the next 15 to 20 years. Because it has one of the longest investment cycles of any industry, we cannot leave decisions for another five or 10 years.
The decisions we make in the next two or three years—before the end of this decade—will have a huge and material impact on what happens later on. In effect, those decisions will determine at what cost the decarbonisation of UK electricity generation will be achieved. If we get those decisions wrong and we lock ourselves into too
much dependence on fossil fuels, we will be forced into making emergency, very expensive changes in the late-2020s and early-2030s.
This debate is about how to decarbonise electricity generation, and I want to start with the nuclear industry. I warmly welcome the fact that, broadly speaking, there is bipartisan political consensus that the UK needs a nuclear component in its energy industry. The latest figures from the Department of Energy and Climate Change show that even now, following the shutdown of a couple of EDF's reactors, nuclear still provides roughly a fifth of our electricity, so it is a substantial component. Nuclear, as supporters such as me constantly remind people, provides reliable, base load, low carbon power.
I do not want to turn this into too partisan an occasion, but there was a slightly wasted decade under the previous Labour Government during which nothing much happened on nuclear. However, the bullet has now been bitten and the decision to go ahead first with Hinkley Point was supported in all parts of the House—even the Liberal Democrats supported that, which showed a welcome change of heart. Unfortunately, the implementation of the decision to go ahead with Hinkley Point is proving to be tortuous and slow. I therefore commend the Government's willingness—in fact, they have been positively welcoming—to perhaps have a foreign investor as the minority partner in Hinkley. I trust that the final investment decision on Hinkley will not be delayed much further, and I hope the Minister will give us an update on progress because many of us have been getting concerned. The timetable for this project has already slipped considerably, and it would be a huge relief to many people if we thought that final investment decision would be signed off imminently.
Of course, the future of nuclear is not just about Hinkley. It is the first step, but other projects are within sight, and I believe that gives Britain the chance to lead a European nuclear renaissance. We have huge advantages in this country, such as the political consensus to which I have referred, and the fact that our regulator is probably best in class; it enjoys universal respect. One reason why the accident at Fukushima four years ago did not derail progress on nuclear power in this country was that people trust the Office for Nuclear Regulation. In the wake of Fukushima, Mike Weightman's report reassured people that such an accident could not occur here and the circumstances of it could not be reproduced here. That has helped to create in the UK a public opinion that is more supportive of nuclear power than that in many other countries. Interestingly, people who live closest to nuclear power stations are often the strongest supporters; they recognise that nuclear is a clean, reliable and safe technology that provides a decent number of well-paid jobs.
The interest that other countries are showing in the UK market reflects those circumstances. We now have interest from the Chinese, South Koreans, Japanese, Americans and Russians; they would all like to be here in the UK nuclear market. Some of them see the UK as a good starting point for the rest of Europe. Many of them will feel that going through and getting approved by the UK's generic design assessment process is an imprimatur—a mark of approval—that would be useful to their technologies in other markets. Britain should welcome and take advantage of that interest. There is
something here we can exploit and perhaps even use to gain a bigger share of the supply chain, with resulting benefits for our economy.
Nuclear clearly ticks the security of supply and cutting carbon emissions boxes, but the industry still has some work to do on the third aim of energy policy: affordability. The questions about cost are a work in progress. I am confident that there are ways of cutting the cost of nuclear. The nuclear industry, rightly, has very demanding safety requirements imposed on it. If the same requirements were applied to some other energies, their impact would be enormous. If the coal industry, for example, had ever had to cope with the safety demands made on the nuclear industry, it would have struggled to survive in the way it has.
However, we must be mindful of the importance of value for money. In this country, we are often supportive of first-of-a-kind technology. It is interesting, because we have a great record and history of innovation and research. However, there is a question mark over whether first-of-a-kind technology will be the cheapest. If nuclear is to roll out extensively, as I hope it will, and continue to supply a significant proportion of UK electricity generation capacity, we have to consider whether technologies that have been tried and tested in other countries first—in a home market—may then be able to offer us something.]]>
I am delighted to have secured this debate and I am grateful to the Backbench Business Committee for granting it. I am sorry that, despite valiant efforts, we do not have quite as many people here as we had when we made the application. I also warmly welcome my hon. Friend from Lancashire—I am about to say west.]]>
system under which consumers are incentivised to reduce their consumption at short notice during periods of peak demand?]]>
Friend agree that investment in science, such as in the new institute for advanced materials—the Henry Royce institute—supports our top universities and will promote innovation, which will bring back high quality manufacturing jobs to the north of England?]]>
That brings me to the subject of earth tremors. When they were experienced in Lancashire, Cuadrilla acted very responsibly by immediately halting its activities while it investigated them. The investigation showed not only that the tremors were so light they could not be felt on the surface, but that they were at a level routinely experienced across the UK every week. The vast majority of such tremors are caused, as my hon. Friend said, by old coal mine works.
On the positive side, in addition to the improvements in energy security there will be a significant improvement in our balance of payments—not that many people seem to worry about the trade balance any more. If, as we hope, UK reserves turn out to be substantial, there will be significant employment opportunities as well. Equally importantly, there is now a real chance for the UK to lead Europe on the issue. If we press ahead now, others will follow but we will have an enormous first mover advantage. It could be UK regulations that set the standard right across the EU and UK businesses that dominate the supply chain.
I urge the Government to ignore today the siren voices calling for delay; to look objectively at the facts, which have been analysed by many learned institutions as well as by my Committee and other bodies; and to recognise the huge potential benefits of fracking, without exaggerating their impact, as I am afraid some of our less well informed supporters have done. Let us oppose amendments that would obstruct the development of a potentially valuable natural resource.]]>


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Adrienne Beiler, of Salisbury, PA and her date, Zac Cupler, of Grantsville, MD have been named the winners of the 2007 Duck Tape Stuck at Prom Scholarship contest, which they won by making their prom dress and tuxedo out of Duct Tape. You can read all about it here, here, and here.
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Abstract Painting for People #4, 1987. Lacquer and acrylic on polymer resin and plywood with anodised aluminum. h: 68 x w: 48 x d: 15 in / h: 172.7 x w: 121.9 x d: 38.1 cm
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Me Portrait No. 2 (Six Gun), 1987. acrylic on aluminum, plastic, steel cable, hardware. h: 62 x w: 47.5 x d: 42 in / h: 157.5 x w: 120.6 x d: 106.7 cm
Ashley Bickerton was born in 1959 in Barbados, his family traveled to many different places as a child. He began his artistic career after he graduated from the California Institute of Art in 1982 and then moved to New York to be apart of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He exhibited for a few years in New York and then got his big break at a 4 person show at the Sonnabend Gallery in 1986. This exhibition launched 4 artists careers that became known as the "Fantastic Four" which includes Jeff Koons, Peter Halley, and Meyer Vaisman. These four artists became the forefront of the Neo-Geo Movement of art. Ashley has exhibited extensively across the globe and is in many permanent collections such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Modern. Many of his works comment on capitalism and the commidification of art itself. The works i have put up are of his early career and are typically assemblages of industrial materials with the use of corporate branding of iconic symbols. He currently lives and works in Bali.
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A place for dreamers
For most of us, the mill has always been there, a hulking relic of our industrial past on the wrong side of Elm Street, reminding us of the days when communities did for themselves and an honest day of hard labor was looked upon as something of a sacrament.
Half a lifetime ago, when I worked on Elm and Lee streets, they were all the wrong corners, except maybe for the fish market by the burned-out bakery where there were once plans for a new ballpark, and a grocery, and a man-made waterfront that would surely drive development. There's been talk of a new Guilford County Schools building and, more recently, a luxury hotel that would funnel revenues back into the neighborhood that has been"¦ re-imagined in a less-forgotten sector of the district.
There was once even talk of the mill "" it featured heavily in the city's 2006 South Elm Street Redevelopment Plan, which recommended the site, formerly known as the North State Mill or the Daily Bread Mill, for a "small-scale civic plaza."
But now people are talking about the mill again, and the wild Frenchman who roams its environs, talking about it like there's something going on over there "" which there is "" and also talking about it like there's nothing at all going on over there "" which, paradoxically, is also true.
The Frenchman is real: my friend Eric Robert (pronounced row-bear, in that fancy French way), formerly of Lyon but a Greensboro resident since he began his undergraduate studies at UNCG back in the 1980s. And it's true that he's spent the last four years "" along with pretty much all of his money and mental energy "" rehabilitating the 100-yearold, 30,000-square-foot structure for"¦ well, that's kind of the problem.
The spot is suitable for many things: A restaurant, a lounge, an art gallery, offices, apartments and shops could all coexist in this ample space.
But for now the place is like a wallflower, all dressed up and waiting for her first dance of the night.
"I see it as an urban resort, an oasis," he says, looking out at the wide plaza. "Out here I see tables and umbrellas, maybe a water feature. This [room] would be perfect for a bakery. A wine bar"¦. Everything great they have in big cities, we could have here."
He's talking to David Wharton, a UNCG Latin professor with a penchant for preservation, architecture and urban planning. He's been
involved with the city's Land Development Ordinance and Downtown Design Guidelines, is an acting member of Preservation Greensboro and chairs the Greensboro Historic Preservation Commission. He's not here in any official capacity "" just another looky-loo here to meet the Frenchman and walk the rooms in this forgotten corner of the Central Business District. But he knows that a structure like this would never "" could never "" be built today.
In a chamber off the first-floor space Robert uses for an office, underneath the 100-year-old wooden silos, Wharton points to a 12-by-12 support beam bowed slightly under its burden.
"Look at the load this beam took," he says. "I mean, that is a freakin' load to bend the wood like that."
Robert smiles. "Every time I give a tour of this place I see new stuff like that," he says.
The wooden silos, constructed from 10-by-6 boards stacked flat atop one another, have been cut into rooms and nooks on three floors.
After World War II, when metal became available again, the 10 giant silos came up in the rear of the property, along the train tracks. You can see them through the windows in Room B, a white-walled expanse with plate-steel flooring and ceilings high enough to produce a slight echo.
"I love the view," Wharton says. Robert says he's thinking about lighting them up at night, like a multi-hued beacon.
And the whirlwind tour of the facility continues, past a staircase fashioned from wood recycled from the building, through a space accented by raw brick and enormous wooden support columns, up into a space that would be perfect for an intimate lounge.
"It took us eight months to sandblast the place," Robert says "" a hardy layer of fine flour dust coated the walls in a kind of mache, had seeped into the wood and infiltrated the rafters. The plumbing and sprinkler system, he says, was a six-figure deal that took almost a year "" a hard hit, considering he's using his own cash to make things happen down here on the wrong corner of Elm and Lee. But money's harder to come by these days, and still the rooms of Robert's folly wait for their purpose, whatever it may be.
"This is probably going to be my greatest accomplishment," he says now from a concrete veranda, "but it could be my demise. I'm obsessed. It's an addiction."
"So what's next for you?" Wharton asks. Robert leans against an open door, considers the plaza he's made at the foot of the old mill.
"I don't know," he says.


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Every year since 1973, the Georgetown Chimes host the largest and longest-running a cappella concert series on the East Coast, held annually in Georgetown's historic Gaston Hall. The Chimes invite other Georgetown a cappella groups, a cappella groups from other universtities, and occasionally professional groups to perform for students, faculty, D.C. residents, and a cappella fans. If you have any questions, please email firstname.lastname@example.com. We hope to see you soon!


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Help us fund GX Australia and join us for a party celebrating both years, our amazing community, and the memories we've all shared. Just a few days left and nearly $5K to go! BACK THIS PROJECT About this project Hey hey! We are Liam Esler & Joshua Meadows, the co-founders and organisers of GX Australia … Continue reading .@GXAustralia — The Goodbye Blowout Party!
Who We Are Now – A queer, post-apocalyptic visual novel on Kickstarter
Download the Who We Are Demo The Game Who We Are Now is a game about trying to move on from past trauma, about trying to find yourself in a world you don't understand anymore, and about finding love even in the most extreme of circumstances. It's a game about exploring the relationships between characters, … Continue reading Who We Are Now – A queer, post-apocalyptic visual novel on Kickstarter
Review: Torment – Tides of Numenera
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Z'Isle -A Cyclepunk Zombie RPG : Signal Boost
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Signal Boost – @GXAustralia Kickstarter
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Signal Boost – Failsafe Kickstarter
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...Mr Tielu? Though his English isn't the best he does try to help. And he always asks if someone has questions they want to ask. It's your problem if you don't speak up. Sometimes you lose him when he talks, due to his accent, but he always makes sure to write thorough notes on the board at the start of class for you to copy down.
Hes cool and his english is fine, if you paid attention you would understand him. though he is a slight pushover, but is mean when hes mad
ahaha gud guy but as others have said he does need to b firmer and control it more
i'm sorry mr tialu, you just have no teaching talents, everyone in the class does their own thing, noone is really learning, you need to look at other teachers and see how they're teaching so you can do the same. You get angered way too easily.
mr tialu is kool.Who ever dissed his english is pretty sad.


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Generally orangeries are becoming more popular both in areas' like Barnet and other areas up and down the United Kingdom, there is no reason why planning permission in Barnet should be any more complicated to attain than in any other area of Britain.
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The phone call I just got was incomprehensible. A ramble of female anxiety from a mother looking for an audition at the Bigfork Children's Playhouse.
By the time I understood exactly what she wanted, directions, a different mother on another phone in her vicinity found out and she hung up on me.
But that's beside the point. Onto important things like my new boss and my new house. First impressions hold on strong and when I get busy I seem to hold onto symbols in my mind. Objects that define things and solidify them in my memory.
I will never forget what my new boss looked like the day I met him. Never. He was dressed to impress, he said. And had just come from meeting with the big bosses in Kalispell.
Black cowboy boots with a steel toe. Polished to a shine.
Black suit. Cowboy style. Polyester black pants and a black suede jacket.
Cowboy tie. Armadillo sized belt buckle.
Black cowboy hat. And a grin.
I was impressed.
We designed our first paper together today. With a little help from our savior Miss Heidi Desch. She is awesome. I think it turned out pretty well, especially the page I designed with photos from the Polar Bear Plunge, which is a work of genius, by the way. But, I will never understand the need for people to put their bare skin in water that is 35 degrees when it's 35 degrees outside the water too.
The system crashed on us today and was slow. We couldn't print pages because the printer wasn't working and there was nothing we could do about it here. We had to wait for outside sources to magically fix it from somewhere west and north of here. That's the way it goes when you work on the "cloud," which is also something I'm still struggling to understand and something that struggles to work on a somewhat consistent basis.
But, who cares, designing pages is kind of fun. A heck of a start for Matt Naber, new editor of the Bigfork Eagle and the West Shore News. The rest of the week hopefully goes much smoother for him.
I'm off to photograph basketball this evening and round out a 12 hour work day, which will be repeated on Thursday. It also means I get to take tomorrow morning off and hang out in my new house.
That house is forever in my mind as the house with the pink bathtub and the pink carpets. And as I found out this morning while taking a shower, also the house with the small hot water heater.
First of all the water take forever to get warm. It's an old house, old pipes, long way to travel, etc. The bathtub faucet is rickety. I didn't notice till I went to take a shower of course, but I couldn't figure out how to make the water hot.
I pulled it to the left and waited. Cold.
I pushed it to the right and waited. Cold.
I jiggled it and wiggled it. Moved it. Cold. I Got frustrated and turned it off.
I then pulled it straight up and waited. Warm. Not hot, warm, and I was thrilled.
I got in and enjoyed, figured out how to make it hot and it seemed like five minutes later it was getting cold. A hell of a way to wake up at 6:30 in the morning.


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The Cape Henlopen High School culinary and management teams took 1st and 2nd place (respectively) at the Delaware ProStart competition today in Wilmington! Congrats to Aubrey, Nate, Melissa, Junior, Taylor & Tiara on a job well done! Next stop: Nationals!!
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Students read the first section of "Zooey," ending with the sentence: "As much as anything else, it was the stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded, doesn't quite approve when the invader just gets up and leaves, one-two-three, like that."
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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2--Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
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