Allister speaks on climate change
03 February 2009
In a debate in the European Parliament, Traditional Unionist MEP Jim Allister again counselled against the rush to huge expenditure, driven by unrealistic targets on CO2 emission reductions, as part of the fashionable climate change hysteria.
In the course of his remarks Mr Allister said:-
"Once more we have preened ourselves in this Parliament on our green credentials and speakers have competed to push higher and higher the unrealistic targets for energy from only renewable sources and the targets for reduction of CO2 emissions, all in the belief that by our puny, but costly, efforts we will save the planet.
Yes, we should use and promote sustainable energy sources, but pursuit of what for most has become a dogma, with no regard to cost or viability, needs to be tempered by reality, including the reality that climate change is not new, but cyclical. And, the reality that while we inflict these targets on ourselves manufacturing increasingly switches to where no such restraints inhibit them. One day, we will have to account for the own goals in which the EU excels."
