Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-05-25-Speech-1-259-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2016-05-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Delivering a new deal for energy consumers - Tackling energy poverty as part of the Energy Union (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20160525.21.1-259-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2016-05-25-Speech-1-260-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Roger Helmer2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, there is some good stuff in this report. Transparency is an excellent thing, which we approve of; competition – the ability to switch suppliers: that too is extremely positive; completing interconnectors so that we can trade energy across Europe: that too is very positive. But with great respect, I point out that we are ignoring the elephant in the room. These measures are merely fiddling at the margin. The reason why we have very high energy prices in Europe and the reason why we are driving our industry into an uncompetitive situation compared to the rest of the world is that we have chosen to rely obsessively on unreliable, expensive, intermittent renewable energy which exports inefficiency to the backup and across the grid. That is the reason, and if we fail to address that reason, we will not solve the problems of competitiveness in the energy market in the European Union, and we will not deliver secure and affordable energy to our consumers. The fact is we have chosen as a deliberate policy to drive up energy prices; we have chosen as a deliberate policy to drive many consumers into fuel poverty; we have chosen to undermine the competitiveness of our industries and to drive energy-intensive businesses offshore to other jurisdictions with lower environmental standards, where they actually emit more CO2 than they would do if we remain. It is a lose-lose policy, and until we start addressing the fundamentals we will not solve these problems."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; United Kingdom Independence Party (2014-07-01--2017-07-31)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2014-09-11--2017-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2014-09-11--2017-07-31)3 member; ITRE (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3 chair_of_the_bureau; EFDD (2014-10-20--2017-07-31)3 member; Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector (2016-01-21--2017-04-04)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Roger Helmer (EFDD )."1
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