Bloomberg: France Urged to Pursue Oil-Fracking Research to Reduce Imports

France, which last year banned oil and natural-gas extraction from shale rock, should keep experimenting with the technology if it wants to curb reliance on imports, the nation’s oil industry lobby said.

The country should use “all means” to cut purchases of energy supplies from abroad, the Paris-based Union Francaise des Industries Petrolieres said today in a statement. UFIP also urged France to revise its mining code so that the public and local government are more “closely associated” with projects. MORE