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"Madam President, some of the amendments that we are considering tonight reflect our manic obsession with renewables. We continue to talk about the importance of reducing CO
emissions, even while the theory of man-made global warming is falling apart in front of our eyes.
But if we were serious about reducing CO
emissions, surely we should be favouring nuclear power stations and not renewables. We have chosen to put in place incentives that grossly distort the market in favour of renewables and against nuclear power.
Europe needs competitive, reliable, mainstream, base-load, generating capacity which nuclear power can deliver. In the meantime, the pathetic trickle of intermittent electricity from wind farms cannot be relied upon to power Europe’s industries.
Many countries in the EU, including my own, are facing the prospect of an energy crunch later this decade, partly as a result of the Large Combustion Plant Directive. Unless we get on and build serious generating capacity, by which I mean nuclear and coal, then we will find ourselves with the lights going out."@en1
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