Tim Yeo Quotes

• It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums

  Tim Yeo

  Future, Vision, Today

  "Benn announces 'stronger' climate change bill" by Rosalind Ryan, Elizabeth Stewart, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2007.

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• Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.

  Tim Yeo

  Wind, Landscape, Intrusion

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• For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

  Tim Yeo

  Time, Party, Firsts

  "Clarke bids for Tory leadership", www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2005.

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• The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.

  Tim Yeo

  Change, Years, Issues

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• I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain to achieve a degree of energy security to reduce its total dependence on fossil fuels and to honour its commitments to cut green house gases.

  Tim Yeo

  Couple, Commitment, Cutting

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• People have got to get used to making low carbon choices. If they have a direct incentive to do so they will think about it. Many times a day you have a choice between a low carbon option and a high carbon option, whether it is at home or at work.

  Tim Yeo

  Home, Thinking, People

  "Britain trails China in dash to low-carbon economy, warns Tim Yeo" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2010.

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