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". Mr President, Mr Watson, I would like to ask you whether you know of any activity associated with the acquisition of energy that does not alter anything in the environment. I know many places where the siting of windmills as renewable energy sources is a cause of public protest. Do you think that the extraction of conventional gas does not affect the environment? Does the extraction of coal, for example, affect the environment? It does. Does the acquisition of energy from solar systems, for example, not have an impact on the environment, given that we have to make use of numerous rare earth elements in it? Not long ago we had a debate – in which Mr Bütikofer took the floor – about how Europe is poor in many rare earth elements that are needed for modern technologies. These elements do not come from the Moon, though; they are simply dug up out of the ground. When we were looking at that report, we wondered whether we should change certain regulations in that case too, to enable benefit to be gained now from these elements at the locations where they are to be found, through an amendment to, for example, the scope of Natura 2000."@en1
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