11. Environmental impacts of shale gas and shale oil extraction activities - Industrial, energy and other aspects of shale gas and oil (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the environmental impacts of shale gas and shale oil extraction activities [2011/2308(INI)] - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Rapporteur: Bogusław Sonik (A7-0283/2012)

Report on industrial, energy and other aspects of shale gas and oil [2011/2309(INI)] - Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Rapporteur: Niki Tzavela (A7-0284/2012)

The following spoke: Rebecca Harms, who repeated the call she had made prior to voting time for the exhibition on shale gas staged by an interest group not on the list of lobby groups to be removed, or for the organiser 'Citizens' Initiative For Responsible Energy' to be entered on the register of lobby groups in the interests of transparency. The President took note of this, and stressed that due authorisation had been granted for the exhibition.

The following spoke: Holger Krahmer on the intervention by Rebecca Harms.

Bogusław Sonik and Niki Tzavela presented their reports.

The following spoke: Janez Potočnik (Member of the Commission) and Günther Oettinger (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Catherine Grèze (rapporteur for the opinion of the DEVE Committee), who also replied to three blue-card questions from Konrad Szymański, Filip Kaczmarek and Struan Stevenson, Eva Lichtenberger (rapporteur for the opinion of the JURI Committee), Jan Březina, on behalf of the PPE Group, Linda McAvan, on behalf of the S&D Group, Fiona Hall, on behalf of the ALDE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Konrad Szymański, Carl Schlyter, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Jan Březina and Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Konrad Szymański, on behalf of the ECR Group, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Sandrine Bélier and Andres Perello Rodriguez, Tadeusz Cymański, on behalf of the EFD Group, Marisa Matias, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Robert Goebbels and Paweł Robert Kowal, and Nick Griffin, Non-attached Member.

IN THE CHAIR: Jacek PROTASIEWICZ
Vice-President

The following spoke: Pilar del Castillo Vera, Ivailo Kalfin, who also replied to a blue-card question by Marek Henryk Migalski, Corinne Lepage, who also replied to four blue-card questions from Struan Stevenson, Holger Krahmer, Oreste Rossi and Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, Michèle Rivasi, who also replied to a blue-card question by Andrzej Grzyb, Anna Rosbach, Niki Tzavela, on the conduct of the debate, Paul Nuttall, who also replied to a blue-card question by Sandrine Bélier, Sabine Wils, who also replied to a blue-card question by Mairead McGuinness, Marek Henryk Migalski, on the conduct of the debate, Sabine Wils, to reply to two further blue-card questions from Holger Krahmer and Romana Jordan, Andreas Mölzer, Richard Seeber, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Claude Turmes and Michèle Rivasi, Franz Obermayr, on the conduct of the debate, Josefa Andrés Barea, Chris Davies, Reinhard Bütikofer, Paweł Robert Kowal, Oreste Rossi, Martina Anderson, Françoise Grossetête, Matthias Groote, Holger Krahmer, José Bové, Struan Stevenson, Roger Helmer, Miloslav Ransdorf, Peter Liese, Kriton Arsenis, Frédérique Ries, Adam Bielan, Rolandas Paksas, András Gyürk, Kathleen Van Brempt, Vladko Todorov Panayotov, James Nicholson, Romana Jordan, Marita Ulvskog, Toine Manders, Marek Henryk Migalski, Ivo Belet, Robert Goebbels and Graham Watson.

IN THE CHAIR: Gianni PITTELLA
Vice-President

The following spoke: Andrzej Grzyb and Struan Stevenson to put two blue-card questions to Graham Watson, who replied to these, Bogdan Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Horst Schnellhardt, Paul Rübig, Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, Christa Klaß and Lena Kolarska-Bobińska.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Alajos Mészáros, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Antonyia Parvanova, Ana Miranda, João Ferreira, Jacek Olgierd Kurski, Franz Obermayr, Jan Kozłowski, Karin Kadenbach and Mairead McGuinness.

The following spoke: Günther Oettinger, Janez Potočnik, Bogusław Sonik and Niki Tzavela.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 21.11.2012, item 5.12 and minutes of 21.11.2012, item 5.13.