Brussels, 12/09/2013 (Agence Europe) - A European Commission proposal, which is still in the pipeline, is required before shale gas can be submitted for its mandatory environmental impact assessment. The European Parliament was given the opportunity of including a shale gas fracking environmental impact assessment in an update of existing legislation but this opportunity was missed, on Wednesday 11 September, when the vote was postponed for review of the directive on the impact that certain...