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"Mr President, I voted against this legislation, as I believe it is poor legislation. There are some improvements, but any legislation on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment that does not require a mandatory environmental impact assessment on hydraulic fracturing or fracking is, in my opinion, poor European legislation.
This Parliament here voted in favour of mandatory environmental impact assessment for fracking. The reason this is needed is because we do not have adequate legislation to cover this new technology. The Commission itself said this in its analysis over two years ago. Therefore, a mandatory environmental impact assessment would at least have plugged some of the gaps in European legislation until the Commission came forward with their proposals.
This is not about whether Member States frack or not. That is a national competence and is their own decision. It is about whether, at European level, we have proper legislation in place to protect the environment. This piece of legislation flunks that test and is a poor outcome for those who want to protect the environment."@en1
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