POLAND: End of shale gas El Dorado?
“We’ve got a problem: gas has evaporated,” headlines Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, commenting a report by the Polish State Geological Institute (PIG) published March 21 which suggests that Poland may have...
View ArticleUS-ROMANIA: General Wesley Clark works for Bucharest
Romania's Foreign Policy reveals that since last May, Wesley Clark, a former commander of NATO’s forces in Europe from 1997 to 2000, has been working as an advisor on questions of strategy and national...
View ArticleThe shale gas mirage
EditorialEvery year, towards the end of the summer, the same question is routinely raised in several European countries: the cost of gas for heating and light throughout the winter. And 2012 is no...
View ArticleUnited Kingdom: It’s a fracking free-for-all
The Independent, London – Cartoon. See more.
View ArticleBelgium: ‘Shell opens hunting season on Belgian shale gas’
"Oil firms such as Shell are targeting Europe," says the daily newspaper. After foraging last year in Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, the Anglo-Dutch company is now interested in...
View ArticleEnergy: ‘Shale gas, a threat to Belgium’
"Will shale gas poison Belgian competiveness in the years to come?" wonders the Belgian daily. The emergence of shale gas, especially in the United States, coupled with a decline in European demand,...
View ArticleGermany: ‘Berlin threatens shale gas’
Ahead of the parliamentary elections next September, the biggest EU country joins the anti-shale gas coalition and hurries to draw up regulations restricting the use of shale gas technology, reports...
View ArticleRomania: ‘Shale gas war begins in Bârlad’
Moscow is attempting to block the extraction of Romanian shale gas, which would reduce the reliance of the country and European Union on Russian energy, points out the daily. At the end of January,...
View ArticleSpain: Madrid plans to extract shale gas
"Government greenlights fracking," announces El País, following the March 1 approval by the Spanish parliament of a bill which will facilitate the use of the controversial technique for the extraction...
View ArticleShale Gas: Brussels douses hopes of a “revolution”
"The shale gas revolution is not feasible," headlines Dutch financial daily Het Financieele Dagblad, following the March 27 meeting of European Union environment and climate ministers. According to the...
View ArticleRomania: Green light for shale gas exploration
Romania has taken a “discreet” step towards shale gas extraction, announces Jurnalul naţional. On April 29, the Environment Ministry gave the green light to foreign energy companies, including US giant...
View ArticlePoland: ‘Shale gas only for Poles’
Days after North American companies Marathon Oil and Talisman Energy stopped shale gas fracking in Poland, news emerges that the country’s chief geologist and deputy environment minister Piotr Woźniak...
View ArticleNetherlands: ‘Rabobank turns against shale gas’
The country’s largest bank is refusing to lend to companies that wish to invest in shale gas. The Amsterdam daily reports that Rabobank “does not want to contribute to energy which it believes to be...
View ArticleUnited Kingdom: ‘Fracking will cut energy bills, says poverty chief’
Hydraulic fracturing or fracking, a controversial technique to extract shale gas from rocks, has the potential to drive down energy bills and save low income families from cripplingly high electricity...
View ArticleThe Netherlands: ‘PvdA achieves goal: to delay shale gas’
The Dutch government decided on August 26 to postpone its decision on shale gas exploration in the Netherlands until mid-2014. According to a technical report, presented by Minister of Economic Affairs...
View ArticlePoland: ‘Polish shale gas is flowing’
Shale gas has been flowing for more than a month from a wellbore near Lębork, in northern Poland, writes Rzeczpospolita, stressing that the flow rate amounts to 8,000 cubic metres per day. Although the...
View ArticlePOLAND: End of shale gas El Dorado?
“We’ve got a problem: gas has evaporated,” headlines Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, commenting a report by the Polish State Geological Institute (PIG) published March 21 which suggests that Poland may have...
View ArticleUS-ROMANIA: General Wesley Clark works for Bucharest
Romania's Foreign Policy reveals that since last May, Wesley Clark, a former commander of NATO’s forces in Europe from 1997 to 2000, has been working as an advisor on questions of strategy and national...
View ArticleThe shale gas mirage
EditorialEvery year, towards the end of the summer, the same question is routinely raised in several European countries: the cost of gas for heating and light throughout the winter. And 2012 is no...
View ArticleUnited Kingdom: It’s a fracking free-for-all
The Independent, London – Cartoon. See more.
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