Motion · S3M-06743 · 16 Jul 2010
No to EU intervention in North Sea Oil and Gas Industry
The motion
That the Parliament regrets the comments from EU Commissioner for Energy, Günther Oettinger, calling for a drilling moratorium across the EU, including the North Sea, and a European system of regulatory control following the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico; believes that the oil and gas industry in Scotland, in cooperation with the UK Government and trade unions, has developed strong health and safety regulations, which put it in a better position than counterparts from elsewhere in the world, and believes that an EU body to provide regulatory control would be an unnecessary expense that would offer little or no benefit to national government, oil companies or the taxpayer and that the European Commission should stop any idea of such a power grab immediately.
Supporters (15)
- Dr Alasdair Allan 19 Jul 2010
- Joe FitzPatrick 19 Jul 2010
- Kenneth Gibson No Party Affiliation 19 Jul 2010
- Rob Gibson 19 Jul 2010
- Stewart Maxwell 19 Jul 2010
- Derek Brownlee 20 Jul 2010
- Nigel Don 20 Jul 2010
- Bill Kidd 20 Jul 2010
- Michael Matheson 20 Jul 2010
- Gil Paterson 20 Jul 2010
- Jamie Hepburn Scottish National Party 21 Jul 2010
- Aileen Campbell 22 Jul 2010
- Stuart McMillan Scottish National Party 23 Jul 2010
- Maureen Watt 26 Jul 2010
- Willie Coffey 27 Jul 2010
Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.