Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-10-25-Speech-2-513-000"
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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission needs to prove today that the industrial policy it stands for is not an empty promise. As has already been said, we cannot accept that economically viable sites equipped with high-performance tools and skilled employees may be shut down because of a cynical calculation of profits.
As far as the Florange site is concerned, I call on the Commission to speed up its selection process for the NER 300 programme, because we must examine all the other options for maintaining activity on European soil. Indeed, this site brings together, under the Ultra-Low Carbon dioxide (CO
) Steelmaking (ULCOS) programme, all the elements needed to set up a pilot project in the field of CO
capture and storage, thereby striking a difficult balance between heavy industry and environmental protection.
The fact is, the more blast furnaces are shut down for the long term, the more it will cost to start them back up again, and the greater the risk of this project failing, which would be catastrophic not only for the Lorraine steelmaking area but also, on a wider scale, for all the regions in Europe that are interested in reproducing this kind of equipment.
The European Union was born out of steel and steelmaking. We cannot let it disintegrate and perish because of a financial crisis and because of the demise of steelmaking, for the sake of our jobs, our regions and our workers."@en1
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