Alberta Oil Magazine: Taking Flight: Poland tries to revive its shale gas hopes as Russia tightens its grip

Let’s face it. The Poles blew it. In the past couple of years, their maddening bureaucracy, a pinch of government greed – perhaps even their Paleozoic history – mucked up an opportunity for Poland to expeditiously develop its shale gas resources.

Developing those resources would have helped lessen its energy dependence on Russia and that country’s unpredictable, autocratic leader with his dangerously expansionist designs.

Now Poland is trying again. It’s reforming royalties and regulations regarding shale gas in a second-wind effort to entice North American energy companies to bring – in some cases bring back – their capital and technology to help Poland frack its untapped shale resources.
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