Activities of Vytautas LANDSBERGIS related to 2007/2118(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Environmental impact of the planned gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea to link up Russia and Germany (debate)
Amendments (3)
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Regrets the individual steps taken by several Member States to satisfy their energy needs, which may be beneficial or helpful to themselves but which weaken the united approach and energy policy positions of the Union, and considers that these should not be developed, since they harm the energy security of other Member States and of the European Union as a whole;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Notes that the Nord Stream project, if implemented, may cause an environmental disaster due to highly toxic industrial sediments dumped in particular in the Gulf of Finland, as well as a significant volume of post-World War II chemical weaponry dispersed elsewhere along the Baltic seabed, should these be affected by building work; emphasises, therefore, that the project must not enter the sea waters prior to proper research and against the will of the littoral Member States concerned;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes the lack of provisional institutional structures capable of responding adequately to the environmental and geopolitical security issues associated with this project, and once again calls on the Council to consider the proposal for the creation of the office of High Official for Foreign Energy Policy, who, wearing a "double hat", would act under the authority of the newly created strengthened High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, a Vice-President of the Commission;