Translation of "besoin d'énergie garantie " (French → English) :

39. Recognises the wide desirability and necessity of electricity from RES, and that in the long run it will be possible to cover our power requirement from the use of various renewable energy technologies; recognises therefore that a combination of biomass and hydro-electric power will in future provide for constant base load generation, and that in addition, the use of wind and photovoltaic power, in conjunction with fuel cell technology, will be able to cover loads in excess of the base load;

39. Recognises the wide desirability and necessity of electricity from RES, and that in the long run it will be possible to cover our power requirement from the use of various renewable energy technologies; thus a combination of biomass and hydro-electric power will in future provide for constant base load generation; in addition, the use of wind and photovoltaic power, in conjunction with fuel cell technology, will be able to cover loads in excess of the base load;

Once again, putting aside the provincial differences and trying not to get into any of that, I will not repeat all of the messages, but the situation is that we have up to 15,000 megawatts of clean energy available after our own needs, and we have Ontario sitting over there dealing with its feed-in tariff issues, looking for hydro power to firm up some of the investments it made in its feed-in tariff programs with solar and wind, its nuclear refurbishment, plus the actual needs of Ontario's aging coal and other plants, and you are sitting here in this country saying, ``Come on.

3. Against this background the G-24: - reviewed the progress made in the implementation of their economic assistance programmes to Poland and Hungary and the extension of these programmes to the other countries of central and eastern Europe; - analysed the impact of the external economic disturbances; - welcomed the steps being taken by the IMF and the World Bank to address the problems of the central and eastern European countries and looked forward to early progress; - agreed to examine further possible ways and means to respond to the most immediate financial needs arising from these disturbances; - examined the need for short-ter ...[+++]m assistance for central and eastern Europe in the energy sector and medium-term action to improve energy cooperation throughout Europe. 4. Regarding the PHARE programme for Poland and Hungary, total assistance pledged so far amounts to approximately US$ 15 billion (11.5 billion ECU). Of this amount, US$ 3 billion have been committed for assistance in the form of grants in the four priority areas - agriculture, training, environment, investment promotion - and over US$ 12 billion have been made available in the form of various export credit and investment guarantees, financial stabilisation funds and loans.

The European Commission, with the new Illustrative Nuclear Programme (PINC), shows the importance it attaches to the emergence in the European Union of a clear and coherent approach towards nuclear energy, encourages the further development of uniform safety and safeguard conditions and, in order to maintain a useful contribution of nuclear power to the future coverage of the Union's energy requirements, suggests a number of basic common principles to be followed by all Member States.