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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

I cannot remember all the things that I wanted to ask in relation to this. Lorraine, it strikes me that what you are sort of saying, I think, is that this is not a comms problem, this is a policy design problem.

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

That comes to my second question. Stephanie, in relation to your experience about citizens’ juries—which I have contributed to by giving testament and so forth in the assembly that Luke oversaw before I came to this place. I know and understand the purpose and so forth of citizens’ assemblies, but it does strike me tha

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

Forgive me, market research does that too. People get quite a lot out of market research, including language, policy, design and so forth. It is not just about your brand, is it?

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

I cannot remember all the things that I wanted to ask in relation to this. Lorraine, it strikes me that what you are sort of saying, I think, is that this is not a comms problem, this is a policy design problem.

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

Do you think that campaign groups—climate action campaign groups such as Greenpeace and indeed some of the stuff that I have been involved in, again before I came to this place—are well placed to engage with people to design things that will work for the outcomes of the people, bearing in mind that climate campaign gro

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

No, no, I mean when we were talking about the north-east of Scotland. Why does Greenpeace think that it is in a good place to talk to oil and gas workers about what is right for them and what is best for them?

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

That comes to my second question. Stephanie, in relation to your experience about citizens’ juries—which I have contributed to by giving testament and so forth in the assembly that Luke oversaw before I came to this place. I know and understand the purpose and so forth of citizens’ assemblies, but it does strike me tha

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

No, no, I mean when we were talking about the north-east of Scotland. Why does Greenpeace think that it is in a good place to talk to oil and gas workers about what is right for them and what is best for them?

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

Why don’t you leave them alone and leave it to people who do know those organisations, those communities, those institutions, and those workers better than you?

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

Heaven forefend you should meet them.

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

Heaven forefend you should meet them.

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

Why don’t you leave them alone and leave it to people who do know those organisations, those communities, those institutions, and those workers better than you?

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

Because those other organisations would not care enough about climate to do it?

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

Stephanie, what evidence do you have that the early engagement processes that you are talking about have averted the judicial reviews and slowing down of the planning processes that are the biggest anxieties that the Government had about introducing particularly the large-scale infrastructure?

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

We do not have that evidence at the moment?

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

Forgive me, market research does that too. People get quite a lot out of market research, including language, policy, design and so forth. It is not just about your brand, is it?

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

Do you think that campaign groups—climate action campaign groups such as Greenpeace and indeed some of the stuff that I have been involved in, again before I came to this place—are well placed to engage with people to design things that will work for the outcomes of the people, bearing in mind that climate campaign gro

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

I am struck by the fact that there are a significant number of obligations on large developers, and indeed a big organisation like National Grid, in order to be able to do this, yet they still end up with this opposition, people raising money for JRs and so forth. So, even with the obligations that are currently in pla

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

If it is a small project that might be possible. If it is a large, nationally significant infrastructure project, that is significantly more challenging, isn’t it?

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3 Sept 2025Energy Security and Net Zero Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 734)

Angharad, as a Greenpeace campaigner, how do you feel about compiling your talking points in order to be able to support large international companies that are developing large energy projects in communities?

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