Leading MEP Calls for European Regulation of Shales

The Guardian writes that the EU Parliament's Chair of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety is proposing a European directive that would penalise or even ban the exploitation of shale gas.

Jo Leinen, a member of the German Social Democratic Party and the influential chair of the EU parliament's main body overseeing environmental regulation, said there was likely to be support for such a legislative intervention.

"We need to be looking much more carefully at shale gas, and at the consequences of pursuing it," said Leinen.

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