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EDM number 1132 in 1999-00, proposed by David Lepper on 08/11/2000.

That this House notes with alarm the unusually severe weather conditions in many parts of the UK; recognises that climate change is likely to play a large part in this as research confirms that the Arctic ice pack is melting so fast that within 50 years it may disappear each summer, and that an area of it the size of Texas has disappeared in the last 20 years; calls attention to the ongoing and probably increasing threat to the Arctic posed by BP's oil exploration activities, despite a vote by BP investors to cancel Northstar and to transfer the capital to BP's solar division, and to the fact that, despite BP's recent global rebranding exercise as an environmentally responsible multinational beyond petroleum, the company in fact is planning to expand its oil and gas investment by 40 per cent. and is spending more on the exercise than it spent on renewable energy last year; and calls on the Government substantially and rapidly to increase its support for renewable energy alternatives, including solar and biomass.

This motion has been signed by a total of 30 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Lepper08/11/2000Brighton, PavilionLabour Co-operativeProposed
Andrew Stunell08/11/2000Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Jones09/11/2000Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Alice Mahon09/11/2000HalifaxLabourSigned
David Chaytor09/11/2000Bury NorthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer13/11/2000KeighleyLabourSigned
Andrew George13/11/2000St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock13/11/2000Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Bob Russell14/11/2000ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Kevin McNamara14/11/2000Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore14/11/2000HendonLabourSigned
Norman Godman14/11/2000Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Martin Caton15/11/2000GowerLabourSigned
Harry Barnes15/11/2000North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Bill Michie15/11/2000Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Nigel Jones15/11/2000CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Jenny Jones15/11/2000Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Simon Thomas16/11/2000CeredigionPlaid CymruSigned
Jon Trickett16/11/2000HemsworthLabourSigned
Paul Tyler16/11/2000North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington17/11/2000Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe20/11/2000LeighLabourSigned
Harold Best20/11/2000Leeds North WestLabourSigned
David Taylor20/11/2000North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
John Cryer21/11/2000HornchurchLabourSigned
Terry Davis21/11/2000Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned
Huw Edwards21/11/2000MonmouthLabourSigned
David Drew24/11/2000StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
Glenda Jackson27/11/2000Hampstead & HighgateLabourSigned
Kelvin HopkinsUnknownWithdrawn

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