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"en.20121121.20.3-257-750"2
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"Brainwashed by the green lobby, the public is often hostile to the idea of shale gas and shale oil exploration. They themselves would be bad. Their exploration techniques would have devastating effects on water, air and health, and there would be little chance of fast developments or improvements. The economic benefits would be disappointing.
My country, France, the only one at present, has decided to bury its head in the sand. Taken hostage by an activist minority, its government prohibits not just exploration, but exploration that would determine the accuracy of the estimates of these reserves, which are currently theoretical and calculated by computer. This type of attitude is unlikely to encourage research, when hydraulic fracturing without chemicals or pneumatic fracturing are already technically possible, unless there are industrial uses and economic benefits. Given the huge challenges we face in terms of energy independence, jobs, competitiveness and restoring the external balance, such an attitude is regrettable. The fact that the subsoil is public property ensures that we would avoid many of the excesses or derivations seen in the United States, which we are force fed. Bizarrely, however, the reports adopted today on this subject are relatively balanced. Their main problem is that they try to circumvent or trample on the Member States’ energy sovereignty enshrined in the Treaties. That is why I abstained."@en1
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