Joyce’s intervention was contrary to the feelings expressed by most other speakers of the summit, including the Secretary in the United Kingdom Ed, Ed Miliband and the French Minister of Industry and Energy Marc Ferracci, who said: “As long as we remain massively dependent on fossil fuels, there will be no energy security for Europe.”
The United States has put pressure on Europe to increase its imports of American liquefied natural gas. But Ferracci said: “We have to speed up the phasing (excluding) of imported energy, and that means decarbonization.”
A figure in the energy industry in the United Kingdom said Joyce’s speech: “It took place like a pet in a telephone booth.”
Chinese “coercion”
Ferracci and Joyce have expressed concerns about the dependence on clean energy supply chains on China.
Joyce said that the construction of wind turbines depended on the magnets. “And since China, the supplier of almost all, has limited its sale, there are no uncompromising wind turbines or coercion of China.”
Net zero policies, he said, have risked “first put the objectives of abstract emission and the interests of our adversaries, and the security of our people”.
