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". I support this report. For too long the European Union has not paid sufficient attention to the need for a common energy policy. We have spent billions on security of food supplies via the CAP, yet nothing on security of energy supplies, leaving the prospect that Europe’s future would be, in a crisis, eating raw vegetables in the dark.
Recent events in Russia – and elsewhere – show the importance of energy security. This must become a key element of our foreign policy in cooperation with the world’s other major consumers whether the United States or Japan, China or India.
At the same time, we must stop tying our hands behind our backs. A tidal barrage across the Severn Estuary in my own constituency could supply up to 10% of Britain’s energy needs from a renewable green scheme with no CO2 emissions. Yet this scheme could be blocked with its enormous positive benefits by the fine print of the Habitats Directive leaving the unsafe alternative of nuclear power, which is infinitely more polluting to habitats across the world. We still have farms in the United Kingdom that have restrictions on stock movements left over from the Chernobyl disaster two decades ago!"@en1
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