5.5 Making better use of the EU's indigenous energy reserves

5.5 Making better use of the EU s indigenous energy reserves

As a result, the country s energy reserves have also become an investment magnet.

There is a great race on for energy resources under the Arctic seabed.

5.5.1 The EESC agrees broadly with the Commission's messages on the use of EU's own energy resources.

5.5.1 The EESC agrees broadly with the Commissions messages on the use of EU s own energy resources.

Of course, this is hardly a new phenomenon Europe started trying to build up its energy reserves back in the 1960 s.

4.4 The distribution of fossil energy reserves among the EU of 25 is very uneven.

Until the reform, energy reserves had long been regarded as a national patrimony that could be developed only by Pemex.

What is happening today in Mali is an illustration of a new stage of political control over the continent's resources, including energy resources.

Investment in the energy sector will improve the reliability of the supply of gas and ensure there is shared responsibility for the sustainable exploitation of energy resources.

Limited energy development in Africa has resulted in one of the lowest uses of modern energy sources in the world.

Wind power becomes much more expensive when we factor in the large supplies of power that must be created for backup whenever the wind dies down.

The creation of America as a major economic power, after all, was made possible by giant steel mills, integrated railway systems, and the mobilization of enormous energy reserves through such ventures as Standard Oil.

Aside from control of the region s energy supplies, water has become a potential source of conflict, given China s serious shortages.

The reasons for this have not changed rising demand for energy, alongside concerns about climate change, volatile fossil fuel prices, and the security of energy supplies.

Fifth, Georgia itself provides an important link to Caspian energy for all those Europeans who do not want to be totally dependent on pipelines controlled by Russia.

In particular, the fossil fuels and energy reserves known or suspected to exist in abundance in these countries, and their strategic position as the new 'silk route' for oil and gas, give them a global political dimension.

Together, Europe and the US account for more than 50 of global GDP, have the largest military force in the world by many multiples, and control a growing proportion of global energy reserves.

But the main reason for India s good relations with Myanmar s ruling thugs is the country s vast and still largely unexploited energy reserves, which India desperately needs to fuel its economic boom.

Mr Müller Hermann. (D) Mr President, our group insists that the subject be dealt with today.

1.2 The countries of Central Asia contain considerable potential energy reserves that offer Europe additional and complementary (as opposed to alternative) sources of energy, although complicated by issues of transit and transport.

1.6 The countries of Central Asia contain considerable potential energy reserves that offer Europe additional and complementary (as opposed to alternative) sources of energy, although complicated by issues of transit and transport.

1.6 The countries of Central Asia contain considerable potential energy reserves that offer Europe additional and complementary (as opposed to alternative) sources of energy, although complicated by issues of transit and transport.

The Christian Democrats, on the other hand, present in six of the ten governments of the Member States of the Community, are not afraid to face up to their responsibilities and strive day after day to develop a concrete alternative. The basic reports which will be considered during the special partsession are an exact reflection of Christian Democratic ideas'.

And the gas deals do not make up for Russia s lost access to the Western technology that it needs to develop frontier Arctic fields and become an energy superpower, not just China s gas station.

So, we are ambitious for the Common Agricultural Policy because it is the pillar holding up that Community spirited Europe we thought we were building. We are also ambitious for this policy because we believe that the agricultural sector can provide one of the major sources of Europe's wealth.

Russia s unhappy status as a democratizing, but still potentially threatening, former superpower, played a role, as did its huge energy reserves, which is why China, incomparably more powerful economically but politically beyond the pale, was never invited to join.

Unlike the United States and China, which the International Energy Agency estimates possess the world s largest shale gas deposits, Europe cannot rely on its limited energy reserves to lower prices especially given that its greater population density makes extraction more difficult, and thus prohibitively expensive.

Ever since Winston Churchill led the conversion of Britain s navy from coal to oil at the start of the last century, the Western powers have meddled incessantly in the affairs of Middle Eastern countries to keep the oil flowing, toppling governments and taking sides in wars in the supposed great game of energy resources.

To turn to the thinking behind our proposals, one of the main objectives of the Commission proposal for an outline programme on the Community's economic and technical activity from 1984 to 1987, which has been submitted to Parliament and to the Council, is to improve the management of energy reserves and to reduce our dependence on energy imports.

Subject Construction of nuclear plant in earthquake prone Turkey The two recent earthquakes in Turkey registering more than 7 on the Richter scale raise tremendous doubts about Turkey's persistence with the construction of costly nuclear reactors at Akkuyu, while energy reserves produced by the Atatürk dams are exported to third countries and the EU spends a slice of its budget on repairing the damage wrought by the earthquakes.

Subject Construction of nuclear plant in earthquake prone Turkey The two recent earthquakes in Turkey registering more than 7 on the Richter scale raise tremendous doubts about Turkey's persistence with the construction of costly nuclear reactors at Akkuyu, while energy reserves produced by the Atatürk dams are exported to third countries and the EU spends a slice of its budget on repairing the damage wrought by the earthquakes.