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3.3 Extension of TEN-E to oil infrastructure
The EU should not waste its limited resources on facilitating further import dependence. The EU should attack this issue on the demand side.

Addition:

The development of CO2 sequestration infrastructure and other new infrastructure should not be supported by TEN-E. The EU needs to focus its resources on the electricity network with a view to enlarging the capacity for renewable energy. In this area, the EU can make an important and proven contribution. New networks should be monitored and studied. There is also a role for the EU in the area of research. A European contribution to new network infrastructure only becomes relevant once such networks are actually developing and a need for European coordination thereby arises.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sun Mar 29th, 2009 at 09:39:52 AM EST

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I will now start to try to integrate all the new suggestions in the diary.

If, hopefully, the text is ready tomorrow, it should be converted into a formatted Word (or other) document, and then into pdf. In this, I hope afew can help -- best would be to use the same format and styling as for his biofuels consultation.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Mar 29th, 2009 at 10:35:59 AM EST
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I didn't do the pdf... And don't recall how it got formatted exactly. I think Nomad did the last bit.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Mar 30th, 2009 at 04:32:39 PM EST
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But I've got the Word document, and the pdf formatting appears identical. Shall I e-mail it to either or both of you?

A point to be considered is whether we announce it as the contribution of European Tribune. I'd say yes, since they recognized us in the ONG section on the Biofuels Consultation. So the header of my .doc, giving my name as a citizen consultee, might not need to be done that way: it could just say European Tribune?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Mar 30th, 2009 at 04:42:47 PM EST
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E-mails sent.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Mar 30th, 2009 at 04:48:32 PM EST
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Beyond slight format changes, I added "only becomes relevant once such networks, and the facilities they serve, are actually developing". Thinking that CO2 sequestration exists mostly on paper.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Mar 29th, 2009 at 10:52:02 AM EST
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Considering that trees have been sequestrating carbon since whenever, putting the facts on paper would seem to make matters worse ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Mar 29th, 2009 at 10:59:28 AM EST
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Well, the EU has Natura 2000 for that. There's a lot to be improved there

(though I do think the link to the climate change issue is a line that needs to be treaded very carefully)

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sun Mar 29th, 2009 at 11:09:31 AM EST
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I'm finished with the edits, except for that profitable projects and non-forthcoming investors sentence. Is is it fine that way?

Can we add anything to 3.1 and 3.2?

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Mar 29th, 2009 at 11:19:18 AM EST
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Well, if I'm allowed to be repetitive, I'd say:

3.1

[deleted the first 'own' because 'own resources' of the EU has a specific meaning in EU jargon]

If the EU's resources are limited, the most effective approach would not be support to developers, but some sort of requirement to develop networks (utilities forced to spend from their own resources or some form of tax). The TEN-E approach needs to be focused further in two respects. First, the projects need to be determined by the Member States in close coordination with the Commission and under clear reference to EU policy goals. Second, the resources need to focus on improvements to the electricity grid, and further on projects that are especially promising for the spread of renewable energy.

3.2

The EU should drop the limitation of wanting only market-driven TEN-E planning (planned revision No. 3). The level of funding for TEN-E is inadequate, but the EU could still allocate the resources with a greater impact if it focused more clearly on the electricity network and left desired expansion of the gas network to the Member States and regulatory requirements for storage and solidarity.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Mon Mar 30th, 2009 at 03:01:19 PM EST
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