Traduction de «autosuffisance énergétique » (Français → Anglais) :

My question to the hon. member is, would she and her party support the building of a much better pipeline to eastern Canada to ensure energy self-sufficiency for Canada; more affordable oil products in the east; more job creation; and the creation, not the closing, of refineries across Canada?

The cost of energy self-sufficiency is so high as to make it an unachievable objective for the United States in the foreseeable future.

As you know, the energy independence and energy self-sufficiency rhetoric heard during the recent U.S. presidential election is nothing new.

20. Welcomes the fact that, in the context of external security, the Commission has included energy policy as one of the main priorities for 2007; recognises the fundamental importance of sustainability, competitiveness, and securing energy supply as well as energy efficiency of the European economy and stresses the importance of diversifying gas and oil supply and of exploring all possible means of enhancing the European Union's self-sufficiency in energy ; stresses the high levels of energy import dependence in the EU; calls for a coherent European energy strategy that includes dialogue with major supply partner countries; calls on ...[+++] Member States to implement fully existing Community legislation on the liberalisation of energy markets, the improvement of energy efficiency, the promotion of renewable energy sources and research on the production and use of bio-fuels and alternative sources of energy;

They argue that increased interdependence can be beneficial and that efforts towards a goal of energy self sufficiency would harm EU competitiveness and economic welfare.

The plant is important for power sufficiency, for business confidence and for reducing pulp mill emissions.