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"Mr President, the truth is that the public is concerned about what we are debating here today, and they are also concerned about what has been said about the lobbyists, but I would like to focus specifically on their interest in what we are going to vote on tomorrow. There is controversy in the international situation. The Commissioner for the Environment rightly talked about uncertainty regarding the extraction of shale gas. It has been used in the US and the abundance of this type of extraction has been mentioned. However, in some countries a moratorium has been put in place, such as in Germany and also in France. The questions in the scientific community and the contradictions within the European Union regarding the technical safety and the possible risks and dangers to the environment and human health mean that we should adopt a position on which there is as much consensus as possible, and with the participation of all the institutions, organisations and members of the public concerned. Therefore, until there is a sufficient scientific and environmental guarantee and the application of precautionary principles and preventive action, we ask the Commission to establish a moratorium to begin with. Secondly, you need to work together. You have expressed two completely different points of view. We need to know that we are not dealing with a threat, as the rapporteur for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy said. We need to know if we have a guarantee. We also ask for the standardisation of the EU’s legislative criteria regarding the Member States and the regions, which are responsible for issuing permits and can sometimes cause significant damage to the environment."@en1
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