The Parliament Magazine: Shale Gas Stakeholders Divided Over EU Guidelines

In a meeting organised by the European commission on Monday 29 June, stakeholders were invited to provide their views on the effectiveness of the EU recommendation on shale gas. The aim of the meeting was to assist the EU executive in reviewing the non-binding guidelines it set in January 2014 on environmental protection for fracking projects so as to decide whether further measures are needed.

Representatives of the oil and gas industry said that the recommendation is sufficient to cover shale gas activity across the EU, which is very low in any case. They argued that, with only 14 wells drilled in the EU last year, adopting further measures on top of the existing framework did not make sense.

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