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"Mr President, I congratulate the rapporteur on her work. She has got some excellent points in the report although, inevitably, she had to include the European obsession with emissions reductions and global warming, even though there has been no global warming for 17 years.
I am very glad to see that the report is open to established technologies including coal, gas, oil, lignite and nuclear. I am encouraged that gas remains prominent, especially in view of the shale gas opportunity, and I am pleased to see the concerns expressed about energy prices, competitiveness and fuel poverty. However, we in my party cannot accept the excessive reliance on renewables, which do not deliver, are unnecessary and unaffordable. We cannot accept the emissions trading scheme, which is a huge failure and is unnecessary and unaffordable. We cannot approve of carbon capture and storage, which is a pipedream and is unnecessary and unaffordable, and we cannot support calls for global climate action, which is not going to happen and is in any case unaffordable and unnecessary.
I am trying to persuade my colleagues to agree to abstain on this report as a courtesy to the rapporteur, but I fear we cannot support it."@en1
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