The Plenary vote will take place Wednesday this week, however, on Friday last week, a sufficient number of MEPs managed to include one amendment (Amendment n°27) directly related to shale gas: “On the basis of the precautionary principle and taking into account the risks and the negative climate, environmental and health impacts involved in unconventional hydrocarbon exploration and extraction (e.g. of shale gas), and the gaps identified in the EU regulatory regime for such activities which the Commission has yielded to pressure not to regulate on, urges local and regional authorities not to authorise any unconventional hydrocarbon exploration or extraction operations in the EU, and urges Member States to refrain from preventing such decisions”(emphasis added).
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:04:27 +0000
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