Brussels, 12/07/2013 (Agence Europe) - Paris has re-affirmed the ban in France on shale gas extraction. The European Commission is due to propose a legislative framework on shale gas this autumn.
The day after his remarks supporting the extraction of “ecological” shale gas in a “public national company”, France's Minister for Industrial Recovery Arnaud Montebourg was brought back into line by Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, who recalled on Thursday 11 July that it was “not...