OVERWHELMING SUPPORT FROM EP BENCHES FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES.

Europe Energy, October, 2005

Luxembourg Green Party MEP Claude Turmes' own-initiative report on renewable energy sources was adopted by the European Parliament in Strasbourg on September 29, but undoubtedly with a little help from the current oil crisis. After the vote in the European Parliament's Committee for Industry and Energy (see Europe Energy 670) back in June, the current sharp rise in oil prices must have had some influence on the passage of this sensitive document promoting the use of renewable energy sources.

"The technology and structural means are already available to us, what we need is a climate of stable investment: and that's what European politicians need to understand", said the author of the report. MEPs explained that recent studies show it will be possible, by 2020,...

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