Jerzy BUZEK, EP President, speaks about the initiative 'Towards a European Energy Community', after the meeting of Committee on Environment Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) of the European Parliament, in Brussels.

Brussels

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Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

energy efficiency (T)

renewable energy (T)

BUZEK, Jerzy (EPP, PL)

Towards a European Energy Community: extracts from the statement by Jerzy BUZEK, EP President

General views of the meeting room (3 shots)

SOUNDBITE (English), Jerzy Karol BUZEK, EP President, We have big tension on our negotiations with our suppliers between member states. How to avoid them? They disturb us as a meter of fact. We prefer to have agreement inside the EU on energy supply. So it will be interesting to do it together.

SOUNDBITE (English), Jerzy Karol BUZEK, EP President, We can not stop Chinese which from producing electricity from coal. So probably we have to ask to develop as quick as possible CCS (Carbon Caption Storage) . I'm asking you as well. If we can have Carbon Caption Storage technology working than is good. We didn't check-it yet, so we don't know. We have just a proposal for 12 installations. It's in discussion, as in this committee, very important. And may be we will give such a technology to Chinese in 10-15 years... because you must know that in the future they will like to stop the coal and electricity from coal. How to stop the emissions. 

SOUNDBITE (English), Jerzy Karol BUZEK, EP President, To improve of course efficiency fro 35% to 50% or 60%, it is possible today. it will be much better from the point of view of emissions, but still there will be emissions. Of curse cooperation with nuclear is also for them very interesting. They will like to build a few nuclear powers, quite new ones. But the coal power stations almost every week quote brain new, coal power stations, not power block or plants, but power stations. They do this almost every week. So we must know what is going on in this country.