Mr. Joe Comartin: Can you tell me if there was any money allocated out of the funds yesterday for research development or implementation of alternate fuels in wind, solar, wave, or anything else other than fossil fuel, nuclear, or ethanol?

The directives given to the ministers of energy and the environment were as follows: climate change is an important global issue and Canada must do its part to address it; no region of the country should be asked to bear un unreasonable burden of action; understanding the impact of Kyoto and the costs benefits of implementation options is key; a process to examine consequences of Kyoto would be established in advance of ratification; the provinces and territories will be able to participate fully with the federal government in the ...[+++] management and implementation of the Kyoto protocol; and finally, the Energy and Environment Ministers would consider jointly appropriate courses of action.

Question No. 12 Mr. Dennis Bevington: With regard to a national energy strategy: (a) what is the government's position on the development and implementation of a national energy strategy; and (b) are there current impediments developing and implementing a national energy strategy and, if so, what are they?

(26) Since the objectives of the proposed programme, which concern the implementation of the Community strategy in the fields of energy contributing to sustainable development, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States acting individually since a promotion campaign and exchanges are required, based on close cooperation on a European scale between the various players at national, regional and local level, and can therefore be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.

The Governments of the Member States and the Commission of the European Communities were represented as follows: Belgium Mr Jan DE BOCK Deputy Permanent Representative Denmark Mr Jann SJURSEN Minister for Energy Mr Soeren SKAFTE State Secretary, Ministry of Industry and Energy Germany Mr Dieter von WÜRZEN State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs Greece Mr Georges APOSTOLAKIS Secretary-General for Energy Spain Mr Claudio ARANZADI Minister for Industry and Energy France Mr Gérard LONGUET Minister for Energy and External Trade Ireland Mr Brian COWEN Minister for Energy Italy Mr Paolo SAVONA Minister for Industry Luxembourg Mr A ...[+++]lex BODRY Minister for Energy Netherlands Mr Koos ANDRIESSEN Minister for Energy Portugal Mr Luis Filipe PEREIRA State Secretary for Energy United Kingdom Mr Timothy EGGAR Minister for Energy * * * Commission Mr Abel MATUTES Member NUCLEAR SAFETY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER USSR - COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS "THE COUNCIL, committed to assisting with improving the nuclear safety in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and aware of the need for sustainable, medium and long-term solutions, to energy supply problems of those coutries, 1.recalls the Council conclusions of 7 December 1992 on nuclear safety in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, involving measures under the Community's PHARE and TACIS programmes for immediate improvements in the safety of nuclear power plants; recalls the importance of the G-24 mechanism for the co-ordination of assistance programmes and the leading role of the Community in this area; recalls also the Community's intended contribution to the multilateral fund for nuclear safety in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union; 2.notes the assistance already provided by the Community for an immediate improvement in the safety of the plants in question, as presented in the report tabled by the Commiss ...

The Governments of the Member States and the Commission of the European Communities were represented as follows: Belgium: Mr Melchior WATHELET Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Justice and Economic Affairs Denmark: Mr Sven AUKEN Minister for the Environment Mr Jann SJURSEN Minister for Energy Mr Leo BJØRNESKOV State Secretary for the Environment Mr Soeren SKAFTE State Secretary for Industry and Energy Germany: Mr Clemens STROETMANN State Secretary for the Environment Mr Reinhard GOEHNER Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal M ...[+++]inister for Economic Affairs Greece: Mr Achillos KARAMANLIS Minister for the Environment, Regional Planning and Public Works Mr Vassilios KONTOYANNOPOULOS Minister for Energy Spain: Mr José BORREL Minister for Public Works and Transport France: Mr Michel BARNIER Minister for the Environment Ireland: Mr Michael SMITH Minister for the Environment Mr Noel TREACY Minister of State for Finance, with responsibility for Public Works Italy: Mr Rocco Antonio CANGELOSI Deputy Permanent Representative Luxembourg: Mr Alex BODRY Minister for Energy and the Environment Netherlands: Mr J.G.M. ALDERS Minister for Housing, Planning and the Environment Portugal: Mr Carlos BORREGO Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources Mr Luis MIRA AMARAL Minister for Industry and Energy United Kingdom: Mr Timothy EGGAR Minister for Energy Mr David MACLEAN Minister of State, Department of the Environment -------- Commission: Mr Yannis PALEOKRASSAS Member Mr Abel MATUTES Member COMMUNITY STATEGY ON CLIMATE CHANGE - PRESIDENCY CONCLUSIONS THE COUNCIL, stressing the serious global environmental issues at stake: WELCOMES progress achieved so far and ongoing work in developing the Community's overall strategy to limit carbon dioxide emissions and to improve efficiency of production, conversion, distribution and use of energy; STRESSES that measures to save energy, to improve energy efficiency and to promote the use of renewable energies constitute a fundamental el ...