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"en.20121121.20.3-161-000"2
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"Madam President, the dangers of fracking to the environment and to public health are so serious in my opinion that they cannot be regulated for. That is why I signed the amendment seeking a total ban, and when that amendment was defeated I voted against the report as a whole.
Incredibly, the water used for one single well for fracking would supply 10 000 Europeans with water for a whole year, and a recent German study states that the global warming footprint of shale gas extracted at a depth of 1 000 metres is 30 % larger than for natural gas, and it is twice as large for gas obtained 2 500 metres down.
This environmentally dangerous practice must be banned. It is precisely the same big oil and big gas companies that have already made super profits, and that have already endangered our environment, who now tell us that shale gas is safe and that there is no problem. They simply cannot be trusted. Instead of relying on them, the public sector must become the spearhead of investment into research and development and infrastructure to develop green energy production. This can be financed through taking the massive accumulated profits of big oil into democratic public ownership."@en1
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