Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-11-20-Speech-2-526-000"

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lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I cannot recall any presiding officer who has ever ignored the timetable quite so effectively, but maybe that is the reason why we are having such a lively debate. My country, Great Britain, was the world’s first industrial nation. To a significant extent, that was built on our exploitation of a natural resource – coal. We had coal mines everywhere in my part of the world. I look now to reducing our CO emissions and going for a non-carbon future, but throughout the 21st century we are going to be burning gas, to a greater or lesser extent. I would like at least to see that gas coming from within my own country, if that is possible, rather than bringing it in from the Middle East. But of course there are risks and uncertainties associated with the development of shale gas. One that has been touched upon is the size of the potential seismic activity. In Lancashire, where there has been some exploratory drilling, Blackpool Tower has shaken. But I am also told when I look at the reports that actually the seismic activity is minimal compared to, say, coal mining. There are other issues: the environmental concerns above all about water, both the injection into and the discharge of water, and the whole question of course-of-lifecycle analysis and the CO effects. I hope that the Commission will address all of these things when it comes forward with this report and I welcome that. You can see this either as an opportunity or a threat. On the whole, I regard the development of shale gas as an opportunity, but please, environmentally at least, let us get it right."@en1
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