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Treaty of Lisbon (No. 2)

Proceeding contribution from Lord Hutton of Furness (Labour) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 30 January 2008. It occurred during Debates on treaty on Treaty of Lisbon (No. 2).
I do not dismiss the importance of considering a variety of different carbon capture and storage technologies. In this country, we have to make a decision about the resources that we have available—that is, basically, to do one project here in the UK. Our clear legal advice was that to run an effective competition—and to have one, and one only—it was best to have a competition involving similar technologies that could properly be compared with one another. I hope that there is scope for pre-combustion CCS demonstration projects to emerge from the European Union's commitment to organise 12 demonstration projects in the next few years. We have chosen post-combustion, for good and strong reasons. It is probably the technology that will have the greatest impact in China and India, and it is where we have to focus our support. Finally, engagement with producer and transit countries, old and new, at European level, is crucial to UK and European energy security. Although pipelines that flow into central Europe from the east may currently have little impact on existing UK energy supplies, as our energy markets become more integrated, the work done to develop diversity of supply in one part of the EU will increasingly boost energy security across the whole European Union. An EU dedicated to addressing global challenges rather than debating internal reform can speak with a stronger voice and establish a more powerful collective position on energy issues at international level—for example, in the permanent partnership council with Russia.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
471 c339 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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