Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

On a related matter, but moving slightly sideways, has the European Union discussed the importation of liquefied natural gas, LNG, from the USA as a reaction to the Ukrainian crisis and in order to move away from the consumption of Russian gas and oil? Poor old António Guterres is getting quoted a lot in this House today. He warned European countries against this consumption of fossil fuels when he said, "Countries could become so consumed by the immediate fossil fuel supply gap that they neglect or knee-cap policies to cut fossil fuel use." He said we are putting the global economy and energy security at the mercy of geopolitical shocks and crises, and that "this is madness: addiction to fossil fuels is mutually assured destruction." When we built the anti-war movement in the early 2000s, we had a slogan: "No blood for oil". I hope we are not now seeing blood for gas. This geopolitical struggle and the attempt to flood US gas into Europe is something we will regret in the long run. As the Centre for International Law has said, there is no silver bullet for solving the climate crisis but there is a smoking gun, and that is fossil fuels. We have to focus. Did the European Union discussion focus on cutting our fossil fuel use, rather than shifting it?

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