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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, what concerns me is that I do not think we are the ones being irresponsible by being in favour of the extraction of something that could make Europe self-sufficient in terms of fossil fuels; it is the Greens criticising this stance who are irresponsible because they are fine about keeping themselves warm – obviously I do not think they stay cold – with the same or similar products imported from third countries where mining and drilling is done at the risk of causing earthquakes. You see, if you take oil or gas out from under the ground you create the same voids that are formed by extracting shale gas.
So this is fine for other countries but it should not happen in Europe. We have to spend taxpayers’ money paying for stuff from third countries when we could – this is only a possibility – we could be self-sufficient with stuff we produce in Europe. At this point something does not make sense to me and I start to wonder whether the Greens have some other hidden agenda. I will close by saying that I really think caring for the environment is important, but I do not think we should miss this opportunity to extract something that could make Europe economically self-sufficient from the point of view of oil and gas extraction."@en1
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