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In a speech aimed at regaining a grip over the political agenda after months of negative headlines over his handling of the coronavirus, the prime minister will say renewable energy can help drive Britain\u2019s economic regeneration. He will announce 160 million pounds ($208 million) for infrastructure at ports to support companies building turbines off the British coast.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAs Saudi Arabia is to oil, the U.K. is to wind \u2014 a place of almost limitless resource, but in the case of wind without the carbon emissions and without the damage to the environment,\u201d Johnson will say, according to extracts of his speech released by his office in London. \u201cThis investment in offshore wind alone will help to create 60,000 jobs in this country \u2014 and help us to get to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Johnson is seeking ways to rebuild the Covid-ravaged U.K. economy and to tackle a surge in joblessness once government employment support falls away at the end of the month. Helping the environment is a key part of his agenda to drive growth and return to the agenda he set out before his decisive election victory last December. Since then, his ratings in polls have collapsed.<\/p>\n
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Tuesday\u2019s remarks are a forestaste of a 10-point program for green industries the prime minister is planning for later this year. Those will include support for innovation and infrastructure, his office said, without giving a specific date for the announcement.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe need to give people the chance to train for the new jobs that are being created every day,\u201d he will say. Investment in green technologies \u201cin the next 10 years will create hundreds of thousands if not millions of jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The broader package, due to be announced later in the year, will help build hydrogen as a fuel for heavy industry, spur carbon capture technology and a ban on the sale of petrol cars, according to two people familiar with Johnson\u2019s thinking. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the plans are private.<\/p>\n
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The prime minister had been expected to give a green recovery speech in September, but the timetable slipped because of the pandemic, according to one of the people.<\/p>\n
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Britain aims to zero out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and the measures would aim to drive investment to reach that goal. Ministers have repeatedly touted the benefits of clean technologies to help the U.K. \u201cbuild back better and build back greener.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The speech also will:<\/p>\n
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The commitment to wind power marks a change in approach for Johnson, who as recently as 2013 said the U.K. would be better relying on energy production from shale gas and nuclear power plants.<\/p>\n
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\u201cNo one seriously believes that wind turbines are the answer to our power shortages,\u201d Johnson wrote in an article for the Sun on Sunday newspaper that year. \u201cNot when they seem to spend so much time motionless, or turning so slowly they wouldn\u2019t pull the skin off a rice pudding.\u201d<\/p>\n
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