Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport – in the Senedd at 1:53 pm on 6 June 2018.

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Photo of David Rowlands David Rowlands UKIP 1:53, 6 June 2018

You make an eloquent defence of the matter, as you always do, Cabinet Secretary, but again I reiterate: is it right that we allow a quarter of our population to live in poverty when we have a natural resource worth billions of pounds lying dormant beneath our feet? It is estimated, Cabinet Secretary, that there may be up to 34 trillion cubic feet of gas in Wales, with at least 12 trillion fully accessible. If this resource were to be exploited, we would not require a nuclear power station built by French and Chinese conglomerates; we would not have to see the beauty of our landscape despoiled by huge arrays of wind generators or thousands of acres of green fields covered by solar panels; nor would we need to import thousands of tonnes of liquid petroleum gas, shipped from halfway across the world, and at what cost to the environment? Surely, Cabinet Secretary, it is time for the Welsh Government to put the interests of the poorest people of Wales before political dogma.