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And coming up in half an hour: We visit the Lincolnshire town where | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
many say it's time to cut the number of EU migrants coming to | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
work here. Plus, is it all a pipe dream? We | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
take to the skies to assess the latest moves to cut Yorkshire's | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2389 seconds | :01:07. | :40:56. | |
It is a size which is new and some would say unproven, changing carbon | :40:56. | :41:00. | |
changing carbon dioxide emissions into liquid which is packed out to | :41:00. | :41:04. | |
sea to be stored for ever in for more oil and gas fields. It is one | :41:04. | :41:08. | |
way of trying to reduce our impact on the environment and to secure | :41:08. | :41:13. | |
our energy supplies in future. A small part of Yorkshire's proposed | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
new multi million pound carbon Capture network opens in ten days' | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
time. As Len Tingle reports, time is running out to protect thousands | :41:21. | :41:28. | |
of jobs which could depend on this new technology. | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
Ferrybridge to power station near Pontefract. In ten days' time, for | :41:32. | :41:37. | |
as an experiment, it switches on new equipment which could preserve | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
its new -- long-term future by capturing the greenhouse gas based | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
carbon dioxide which spews out from his chimneys. This will be the | :41:46. | :41:51. | |
largest capture plant of its world of its type in the world, and the | :41:51. | :41:54. | |
learning is important in terms of developing industry. So this | :41:55. | :41:59. | |
industry is ready to demonstrate seer to capture in a large scale. | :41:59. | :42:02. | |
That larger-scale would involve fitting full-scale car-bomb | :42:02. | :42:07. | |
captured plants at all Yorkshire's coal-fired power stations. The | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
liquified gas is pumped away by pipeline along with emissions from | :42:11. | :42:16. | |
still works and chemical companies on the humbug before sending all | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
the vet to be stored in a while and gas fields on the North Sea. | :42:20. | :42:25. | |
You can see how big this project is - miles and miles of pipe right | :42:25. | :42:32. | |
across Yorkshire. It is going to take a lot of patience and a lot of | :42:32. | :42:38. | |
money for this project to succeed. The project is nothing that we have | :42:38. | :42:43. | |
not done before. The process is all exist, but the challenge is to do | :42:43. | :42:47. | |
it at a much larger scale than ever before, and at a way which is | :42:47. | :42:53. | |
integrated. But certainly it is achievable if the financing and its | :42:53. | :42:57. | |
planned commission come together in the next few years. On the billions | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
of European and matching taxpayers' money can afford to take the risk | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
that it will work. A decision has to be made within months. | :43:05. | :43:09. | |
Construction will take these plants and power stations right up to the | :43:09. | :43:13. | |
deadline for meeting new emissions levels, if they do not, then | :43:13. | :43:19. | |
thousands of jobs will go as they are forced to shut. The free market | :43:19. | :43:25. | |
were not delivered car-bomb capture on their own, governments need to | :43:25. | :43:30. | |
have capacity building mechanisms. It has not got its action -- act | :43:30. | :43:34. | |
together yet. Given that European emissions | :43:34. | :43:37. | |
controls are going to kick in relatively soon, he is it crucial | :43:37. | :43:45. | |
that car-bomb capture words or tens of thousands -- car-borne capture? | :43:45. | :43:50. | |
In this scheme comes to fruition on the Humber, the jobs picture would | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
be transformational. A lot of infrastructure would be poor it in. | :43:54. | :43:57. | |
And then longer term, once the infrastructure is in place you | :43:57. | :44:04. | |
would have a hub for low car-borne projects and applications. In terms | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
of a catalyst for growth and employment this can be very | :44:07. | :44:11. | |
attractive. The technology needs a lot of work | :44:11. | :44:15. | |
before it can be commercialised. Most predictions savings will not | :44:15. | :44:20. | |
be until after the 20 30s. We need to see an acceleration of these | :44:20. | :44:26. | |
efforts to bring that date forward. And this helicopter a guided tour | :44:26. | :44:29. | |
for journalists is in effect cranking up the lobbying campaign | :44:29. | :44:33. | |
to ensure the Government and the EU commissioners bought their money | :44:34. | :44:38. | |
where their mouths are. We are now flying over the cholera. | :44:38. | :44:44. | |
It has been piecemeal so far, but much more money is required if | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
Yorkshire's car-bomb capture network is to work on a scale which | :44:47. | :44:53. | |
has not been affected anywhere else in the world before. -- car-borne. | :44:53. | :44:58. | |
My eyes in the studio is the UK at any P Godfrey Bloom, he and at | :44:58. | :45:01. | |
Westminster is Julian Smith, Conservative MP for Skipton and | :45:01. | :45:07. | |
Ripon. Julian Smith, a car-bomb that capture and storage facility | :45:07. | :45:11. | |
on this scale would mean a huge investment on public money where | :45:12. | :45:18. | |
many say the signs is as yet unproven. Is this a huge gamble? | :45:18. | :45:23. | |
it is important that the science does stack up. It should do, but it | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
is also important that private money comes in as well. My | :45:27. | :45:32. | |
understanding is that many of these projects, a huge number we have got | :45:32. | :45:36. | |
in Yorkshire and Humber, if with a great opportunity because of our | :45:36. | :45:39. | |
industrial legacy and the infrastructure is there, a private | :45:40. | :45:45. | |
money attached. As they demonstrate, they will bring money in this -- | :45:45. | :45:49. | |
value in this area, the Government will step in once that is proven. | :45:49. | :45:54. | |
Godfrey Bloom is shaking his head. Of course, he independent | :45:54. | :45:57. | |
scientists are now moving away from the fact that carbon-dioxide is a | :45:57. | :46:02. | |
pollutant at all, and that it causes global warming. We know | :46:02. | :46:04. | |
institutionally the main institutions across the planet are | :46:04. | :46:08. | |
now telling us there has not been any global-warming significantly | :46:08. | :46:14. | |
for 15 years. We also know without doubt that carbon-dioxide throw at | :46:14. | :46:19. | |
them atmosphere for those global warming, it does not precede it. | :46:19. | :46:25. | |
And of course who picks up the tab for it? It is old age pensioners on | :46:25. | :46:28. | |
in Yorkshire who see their electricity bills soaring through | :46:28. | :46:33. | |
the roof, 20 % in the last three years and destined to go up another | :46:33. | :46:38. | |
25 %. It is all very well talking about saving the planet, but it is | :46:38. | :46:41. | |
old age pensioners and people on fixed incomes who are going to | :46:41. | :46:45. | |
suffer. Julian Smith, the last major | :46:45. | :46:51. | |
potential car-borne capture probe a project in the in Scotland was | :46:51. | :46:53. | |
abandoned a earlier this year because it was going to cost so | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
much. Can we afford this? Government is looking very | :46:57. | :47:01. | |
carefully on insuring value for taxpayers when it puts his money | :47:01. | :47:07. | |
aside. That is why we are leading a cross-party campaign to get the | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
green investment bank in Leeds and Yorkshire. We have got a huge | :47:10. | :47:14. | |
opportunity here but we have to demonstrate on every project the | :47:14. | :47:18. | |
taxpayer is getting value for money. Godfrey Bloom, whether you like the | :47:18. | :47:23. | |
technology or not or you believe in man-made climate change, this could | :47:23. | :47:26. | |
potentially create thousands of jobs in Yorkshire at a time we | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
desperately need them. No, it is the opposite. The problem we have | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
with all this carbon-dioxide nonsense that is being talked down | :47:34. | :47:40. | |
Cubbon tax credits and so on, he is it makes our energy too expensive. | :47:40. | :47:43. | |
So our manufacturing industries are being exported to China and the Far | :47:43. | :47:48. | |
East. This is costing us thousands of jobs, and they are closing the | :47:48. | :47:53. | |
jobs in Teesside and Cheshire. The chemical plants, the aluminium | :47:53. | :47:58. | |
plants. This is all about screwing the poor Auld working man he is in | :47:58. | :48:03. | |
the North of England who has got a job in manufacturing. It is killing | :48:03. | :48:09. | |
our manufacturing industry. Dunion, is it going to hurt the Little | :48:09. | :48:15. | |
People's profits? Godfrey is a climate change denier. But I think | :48:15. | :48:19. | |
we have got to be in the 4th front in Britain of all these | :48:19. | :48:22. | |
opportunities in green energy. Whether you believe in climate | :48:22. | :48:28. | |
change or not, gas, call, a whole set of fossil fuel reliance. We | :48:28. | :48:32. | |
have got to get stuck in here and be at the forefront of this new | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
innovations. The Duke of Edinburgh has been quoted saying that wind | :48:36. | :48:41. | |
farms are are useless and those who believe in them are living in a | :48:41. | :48:46. | |
fairy-tale. But think he has employed Godfry as a scriptwriter. | :48:46. | :48:51. | |
One thing you can say about the Duke, he tells it how it is. He is | :48:51. | :48:55. | |
right, it is nonsense and it is about transferring wealth from poor | :48:55. | :49:01. | |
people to rich people. What about the jobs on the Humber. Jobs entire | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
by manufacturing. Higher energy costs jobs, it does not produce | :49:05. | :49:11. | |
jobs. If there was not taxpayers' subsidy is, there would not be as | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
significant -- single winter pine in the country. | :49:15. | :49:20. | |
Joe Neots Smith, can you say that at the time when many people are | :49:20. | :49:24. | |
facing fuel poverty, they should pay more on their energy bills to | :49:24. | :49:30. | |
pay for wind farms? I am not a great fan of wind farms, I have a | :49:30. | :49:34. | |
bit far constituency in England and I have not seen yet the evidence | :49:34. | :49:38. | |
that putting two or three wind farms in beautiful villages across | :49:38. | :49:42. | |
Yorkshire makes sense. I think we have to look at these different | :49:42. | :49:47. | |
technologies individually. A case unproven for wind farms. Do you | :49:47. | :49:51. | |
think Yorkshire it could be at the centre of the green energy bomb? | :49:51. | :49:56. | |
again that is why I am backing this campaign to get the Green | :49:56. | :50:00. | |
Investment Bank for Britain in Yorkshire. If we have a whole range | :50:00. | :50:07. | |
of projects and Community energy projects in my constituency in | :50:07. | :50:12. | |
settle. If we are at the forefront of this area and we have to stay | :50:12. | :50:16. | |
here and played for Britain. Godfrey, shouldn't you be more | :50:16. | :50:20. | |
optimistic? This could be the start of a new broom in this Driffield | :50:20. | :50:25. | |
Show up. Thousands of jobs. jobs subsidised by the taxpayer are | :50:26. | :50:30. | |
not real jobs. We need to create wealth and create cross. As Winston | :50:30. | :50:35. | |
Churchill said, you do not bat by taxing and spending. It is like | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
trying to pick yourself up by standing in a bucket. We need real | :50:38. | :50:41. | |
jobs, not bogus jobs like these jobs. | :50:41. | :50:46. | |
We will leave that for now, because claims that the public services in | :50:46. | :50:50. | |
parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire a struggling to cope because of the | :50:50. | :50:54. | |
impact of immigration are being looked at by researchers at the | :50:54. | :50:57. | |
Home Office. In a week when unemployment reached its highest | :50:57. | :51:02. | |
level since 1996, people in one Lincolnshire town have been | :51:02. | :51:06. | |
preparing to march in protest at the number of jobs taken by migrant | :51:06. | :51:15. | |
workers. This is the man who was prepared to | :51:15. | :51:19. | |
take to the streets of his home town to protest against the impact | :51:19. | :51:24. | |
of migrant workers. Dean Everitt had been planning an anti- | :51:24. | :51:30. | |
immigration March, which was due to take place in Boston this week. | :51:30. | :51:35. | |
was a plasterer, self-employed. On for days I was told to leave my job | :51:35. | :51:39. | |
and on the Saturday to Polish people came in on my place. Local | :51:39. | :51:45. | |
people have been forced out of work, housing is in short supply, school | :51:45. | :51:49. | |
places I getting overcrowded. Hospital waiting times a ridiculous. | :51:49. | :51:54. | |
The town is just in a mess, and it is all down to immigration. | :51:54. | :51:58. | |
Dean was persuaded to call off his March following talks with the | :51:58. | :52:03. | |
local council, which has set up a task force to look at the impact of | :52:03. | :52:08. | |
immigration on Boston. Boston is a small market town that has seen as | :52:08. | :52:10. | |
a significant impact, a disproportionate increase on the | :52:11. | :52:15. | |
size of its migrant population, in a relatively short space of time. | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
We have always that the difficulty of persuading people in central | :52:18. | :52:22. | |
Government that our population profile and the size of the | :52:22. | :52:26. | |
population is different and larger than it appears to be from the | :52:27. | :52:31. | |
available statistics. It is not known exactly how many | :52:31. | :52:35. | |
foreign nationals currently live in Boston. But it has been estimated | :52:35. | :52:40. | |
at up to a quarter of the local population, giving the town the | :52:40. | :52:45. | |
second highest number of EU migrants outside the City of London, | :52:45. | :52:50. | |
with some schools having up to 50 % of children with English as a | :52:50. | :52:53. | |
second language. He in the past few days, officials | :52:53. | :52:58. | |
from the Home Office have met with Dean Everitt and representatives | :52:58. | :53:01. | |
from various public services here in Boston. If I am told that the | :53:01. | :53:05. | |
Government is taking seriously the long-term impact immigration is | :53:05. | :53:09. | |
having on this part of Lincolnshire. Last month the Prime Minister told | :53:10. | :53:13. | |
me that more British people should be filling jobs that are currently | :53:13. | :53:17. | |
held by migrant workers. There are a lot of jobs that are | :53:18. | :53:22. | |
done in Lincolnshire that people come over from Europe to do, but | :53:22. | :53:26. | |
frankly British people can could and should do. We are reforming | :53:27. | :53:31. | |
welfare, so it is no longer being an option to sit on the Gulf when | :53:31. | :53:36. | |
there is work available for you. My arena, who is Portuguese, is | :53:36. | :53:42. | |
doing a child care apprenticeship. -- Marina. She people come here to | :53:42. | :53:47. | |
live off benefits. People think that every foreigner in Boston is | :53:47. | :53:55. | |
the same, but they are not. And many farmers say Lincolnshire's | :53:55. | :53:57. | |
lucrative food production industry would not survive without migrant | :53:57. | :54:01. | |
labour. I don't think we could find enough | :54:01. | :54:07. | |
English workers to do that job. If you take 50 % a way, if what | :54:07. | :54:11. | |
happens when we are in full swing and we find out we do not have | :54:11. | :54:14. | |
enough workers? Were what the state of the bosses | :54:14. | :54:18. | |
who say we need migrant workers to do double -- jobs British workers | :54:18. | :54:23. | |
could not do? I would like to say, who would do that job -- who did | :54:23. | :54:26. | |
their job before the mike was landed there? It was us, the people | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
of Boston. But Home Office says its | :54:30. | :54:33. | |
researchers are looking at the impact of migrants on public | :54:33. | :54:38. | |
services across the country. Many here are eagerly a words -- | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
awaiting the findings. Let us go to Godfrey Bloom on this | :54:42. | :54:46. | |
one. You have been quoted as saying that you believe migrant workers | :54:46. | :54:49. | |
make more reliable workers than British workers. Why do you think | :54:49. | :54:54. | |
that? This is the feedback I have got from employers, but we need to | :54:54. | :54:57. | |
restructure the entire welfare system. We have a minimum wage | :54:57. | :55:05. | |
policy which has -- his double that in eastern Europe. We have got a | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
welfare state which I would argue has always been a mistake, where | :55:09. | :55:15. | |
welfare is a lifestyle choice. What is actually happening is the market | :55:15. | :55:20. | |
is saying we want these workers, and we want -- and there are people | :55:20. | :55:25. | |
in Boston who would like to do the jobs, and we have a suicidal | :55:25. | :55:29. | |
immigration policy, because our immigration policy is dictated by | :55:29. | :55:34. | |
Brussels. This is the sort of problem we have. | :55:34. | :55:38. | |
Chilean, do you sympathise with the people in Boston and many other | :55:38. | :55:41. | |
towns across the country, who say public services are struggling to | :55:41. | :55:45. | |
cope because of the sheer number of migrant workers who have come here | :55:45. | :55:50. | |
in recent years? Yes, that is why my colleague Mark Simmons in Boston | :55:50. | :55:56. | |
is looking at this area, and the Government is putting in place | :55:56. | :56:01. | |
incredibly tough new restrictions on immigrants from outside the EU | :56:01. | :56:06. | |
coming into Britain. We have also got to look at why our immigrant | :56:06. | :56:10. | |
workers are attractive to employers. They are attractive in my | :56:10. | :56:15. | |
constituency and across Yorkshire and I think they'd land from, one | :56:15. | :56:18. | |
of the values the commitment the energy they bring to employers. | :56:18. | :56:21. | |
But you are powerless to stop migrants from was EU countries | :56:21. | :56:26. | |
coming here. If you cannot turn off the tap. The last Labour Government | :56:26. | :56:32. | |
did not impose any restrictions on the EU migrants. But the counter to | :56:32. | :56:37. | |
that is businesses in Yorkshire can go and trade across the EU, workers | :56:37. | :56:42. | |
in Yorkshire can go and work across the EU. If we are better to look at | :56:42. | :56:46. | |
what are the skills and values, what other ways of working, of | :56:46. | :56:52. | |
these immigrant workers, and how do we as a British born workers try | :56:52. | :56:57. | |
and match them? Then these jobs will be much more accessible -- | :56:57. | :57:02. | |
acceptable for local people. Godfry, but in many places migrant | :57:02. | :57:07. | |
people a part of the fabric of society. They are here to stay, | :57:07. | :57:11. | |
aren't they? This is typical of the intellectual dishonesty of the | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
Conservative Party. You are quite right, there is absolutely nothing | :57:15. | :57:19. | |
that can be done, and you cannot blame the previous Government. If | :57:19. | :57:22. | |
you cannot restrict immigration from European Union countries. If | :57:22. | :57:26. | |
people come here from eastern Europe where they are badly paid | :57:26. | :57:31. | |
and come here to do jobs that either we will not do our cannot do. | :57:31. | :57:34. | |
So it is completely ridiculous to say that we can do anything about | :57:34. | :57:39. | |
it. While we are part of the European Union, our immigration | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
policy will be decided in Brussels and not Westminster. I think a | :57:42. | :57:45. | |
little honesty from Julian Smith would be valid for. | :57:45. | :57:50. | |
I knew been dishonest? Are as I said, we cannot do anything about | :57:51. | :57:54. | |
European immigration, but as I suggested, there are lessons that | :57:54. | :57:58. | |
can be learned from immigrant workers who are coming here and | :57:58. | :58:03. | |
proving attractive to employers. The work programme, various | :58:03. | :58:07. | |
policies to get local workforce skilled up are important, but it is | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
also an attitude of mind. Our British-born workers have quite a | :58:11. | :58:14. | |
lot to learn from many of these migrants coming and taking jobs | :58:14. | :58:18. | |
that they feel they should be getting. So how do you get, Godfrey | :58:18. | :58:24. | |
Bloom, British people off benefits and into work? Well, the last thing | :58:24. | :58:28. | |
you do is to pay perfectly fit young men and women to sit at home | :58:28. | :58:32. | |
watching television. So this welfare culture which has been | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
brought on needs to stop and is to stop straight away. We also needs | :58:36. | :58:42. | |
to look at art education system to look at better in -- providing | :58:42. | :58:47. | |
better educated people, and getting away from the system where people | :58:47. | :58:55. | |
do not have the work ethic. Many -- the man in your film is being | :58:55. | :58:59. | |
tarred with the same brush as the boy who do not have to work -- do | :58:59. | :59:03. | |
not want to work. I feel sorry for that man has lost his job through | :59:03. | :59:08. | |
no fault of his or her. A group of be a -- bishops have | :59:08. | :59:13. | |
written a letter today criticising the Government's limit of �500 a | :59:13. | :59:18. | |
week which households will be able to claim in benefits in future. The | :59:18. | :59:21. | |
Bishop of Ripon and Leeds is leading a debate. What is your | :59:21. | :59:25. | |
message to him? He is detached from the reality of people who are | :59:26. | :59:31. | |
working flat out to stay afloat in this very tough economic times. | :59:31. | :59:35. | |
�500 per week is the cap for the Government is introducing. Speak to | :59:35. | :59:40. | |
any of my constituents who are working in businesses bought in | :59:40. | :59:44. | |
employment, and they will think that is a lot of money. The bishops | :59:44. | :59:49. | |
to stick to his task of running and helping to run the Church of | :59:49. | :59:53. | |
England and leave the task of the benefit cap to Mr Cameron and his | :59:53. | :59:57. |