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"This report’s concern is expressed in terms of guarding against the environmental impacts associated with the exploration and extraction of unconventional shale gas and oil, by planning, testing, use of new and best available technologies, data collection and monitoring. In our opinion, at the very least there should be a moratorium on the exploration of shale gas and oil deposits, bearing in mind that these techniques result in highly controversial and significant environmental impacts, involving deep drilling, explosions in the shale layer, and injection of water, chemicals and sand at high pressure in order to extract the gas and oil. The environmental impacts of this process are significant and extremely negative in terms of the contamination of groundwater or watercourses draining from schistose rock masses, due to the leaching of injected chemicals. In addition, the rock masses can be left unstable, with the release of methane into the atmosphere. The amendment tabled, which urged the Member States to adopt this moratorium on hydraulic fracking operations and which we signed, bearing in mind the precautionary and preventative principles, and also the risks to the environment and public health, was unfortunately rejected."@en1
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