Event
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Europe is not for shale!
A Greens/EFA Conference
DRAFT PROGRAMME
(Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Lithuanian and Spanish)
Panel 1: State of play of fracking and shale gas
09:30-10:30
- Welcome by Rebecca Harms, Co-president of the Greens/EFA Group
- Keynote address: John Ashton, independent commentator
- Response by José Bové, Greens/EFA MEP
- Q&A (15')
Panel 2: Civil society experiences with the current regulatory framework for UFF
10:30-12:15
Moderated by Martin Häusling, Greens/EFA MEP and Florent Marcellesi, Spokesperson of EQUO, Spanish Greens, in the European Parliament
- Presentation of report on civil society assessment of EC recommendation by Paul de Clerck / Antoine Simon, FOEE (20')
- ‘Snapshots’ of national situation (50' - 10’ each)
- Germany, Andy Gheorghiu
- Lithuania, Tomas Tomilinas
- Poland, Ewa Sufin-Jacquemart
- UK, Jake White
- Spain, Samuel Martín-Sosa Rodríguez, Carles Seijo
- European Commission state of play on the evaluation of recommendations (15')
- Karl Falkenberg, European Commission, DG Environment
- Q&A (10')
- The international dimension on the example of Algeria: Hocine Malti (10')
Panel 3: Climate change and shale gas
12:15-13:00
- The problem: Shale gas and the link to COP 21: Jan Kersting, Institute Fraunhofer ISI (10')
- The solutions: Werner Frohwitter, Feldheim, first German 100% off-grid town (10')
- Civil society response: Geert de Cock, Food & Water Europe … how to cut gas consumption? (10')
- Conclusions
