Ed Miliband tells global energy ministers and industry bosses that the UK's clean power push is about security as much as fighting climate change. Speaking at a global energy security summit in London, the energy secretary tells delegates: "As long as energy can be weaponised against us, our countries and our citizens are vulnerable and exposed”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00And in the years since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we've been reminded in the UK, and indeed across Europe and the world, of a simple truth.
00:07That as long as energy can be weaponized against us, our countries and our citizens are vulnerable and exposed.
00:14So our vision of low carbon power goes well beyond the climate imperative, important as that is.
00:21Homegrown low carbon power is our nationally chosen route to energy security.
00:26Solar power, wind power, tidal, geothermal, nuclear power, also an essential part of the low carbon opportunity.