By Jean-Pierre SCHAEKEN WILLEMAERS, Chairman of the Energy, Climate & Environment Department of the Thomas More Institute | Published in La Libre Belgique (Belgium), June 14, 2013 | Available in French
Parmi les conclusions du Conseil européen du 22 mai 2013, trois sont particulièrement significatives pour la politique énergétique européenne : la politique européenne de l’énergie doit assurer la sécurité de l’approvisionnement des ménages et des entreprises à des prix et des coûts abordables et concurrentiels ; il reste crucial de continuer à accroître la diversification d’approvisionnement énergétique en Europe et de développer les ressources énergétiques domestiques, de réduire la dépendance (...)
Up to now, no one has really doubted that the Russian State and Gazprom have overlapping interests on European energy markets. The State gas company’s projects fit within the State’s policies towards Europe. There is a coincidence of positions between both players, Gazprom relaying and implementing Russia’s State strategy to the European Union (EU). Hence, a largely-shared analysis among European policy-makers that Gazprom is the energy armed wing of the Russian government, its tool, one of its levers for action. That Thomas More Institute Tribune strongly questions this too easy approach. By highlighting Gazprom’s corporate and economic strategies in Europe, it presents a more nuanced picture of Russian energy positions (...)
By Jean-Pierre SCHAEKEN WILLEMAERS, Chairman of the Energy, Climate & Environment Department of the Thomas More Institute | Published in La Libre Belgique (Belgium), April 6, 2013 | Available in French
L’UE s’est engagée à réduire, d’ici à 2050, les émissions de gaz à effet de serre de 80 à 95% en-dessous du niveau de 1990. C’est, en effet, le 15 décembre 2011, que la Commission européenne a adopté l’« Energy Roadmap 2050 ». La Commission y explore les défis posés par l’objectif de dé-carbonisation tout en assurant la sécurité d’approvisionnement et la compétitivité.
On ne peut que constater que cette politique européenne engendre des effets pervers qui, à la fois, nuisent au bien-être des (...)
While the French Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices announces the launch of a new report to investigate technologies other than hydraulic fracturing, it is interesting to review the policies of our European neighbors, with the Benchmarking Note N°14, published last December by the Thomas More Institute
To assert that the 21st century is now witnessing energy revolution has become common place. It only needs to remind passionate debates on the shortage deadline of fossils resources, preoccupations due to climate change or simply the merge of a middle class of hundreds of thousands people living in emerging countries and who meet consumptions standards of Westerns Countries, to be (...)
By Jean-Pierre SCHAEKEN WILLEMAERS, Chairman of the Energy, Climate & Environment Department of the Thomas More Institute | Published in L'Écho (Belgium), February 8, 2013 | Available in French
Ce système connu sous l’acronyme « EU ETS » (European Union Emission Trading System) est une bourse d’échanges de quotas d’émissions de CO2 (certificats carbone) visant à réduire l’émission globale de ce gaz. En d’autres mots ceux qui émettent plus de CO2 que le quota qui leur a été accordé, doivent acheter des certificats, en fait des permis de polluer, à ceux qui émettent des quantités inférieures à leur quota et donc disposent d’un excédent de ces certificats. Il a été lancé le 1er janvier 2005. Après (...)
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