Europe must seriously reconsider the use of safe nuclear energyEuropean Liberal Youth (LYMEC) welcomes European Commission’s proposal to develop an integrated energy and climate change package with the aim to cut emissions for the 21st Century. The European Commission, with the crucial input from the liberal commissioner on energy Andris Pielbags, has proposed a comprehensive package of measures to establish a new Energy Policy for Europe to combat climate change and boost the EU's energy security and competitiveness. The package of proposals set a series of ambitious targets on greenhouse gas emissions and renewable energy and aim to create a true internal market for energy and strengthen effective regulation.
Back in March 2006 LYMEC was already advocating the creation of single and free market of energy after looking at the green paper on energy policy. Today LYMEC strives for more efficiency and use of low carbon energy.
Roger Albinyana i Saigí, LYMEC president, stated that “the Commission’s proposal goes in line with our political objectives to achieve a more sustainable, independent and efficient energy market, more reliable on the less polluting energy sources and realist with the progressive rise of Europe 's dependency on energy supply”.
Commenting on the Russia-Belarus oil row that led to an interruption in EU oil supplies, LYMEC president said: “This situation adds urgency to our drive towards a common energy policy. It is another demonstration that we need a common energy policy”. And he continued “If we want to succeed in our attempt to reduce by 20% the gas emissions by next decade, we definitely need to consider the possibility to use safe nuclear energy as a way to produce more electricity”.
Friday, January 12, 2007
www.lymec.org
No comments:
Post a Comment