The European Union should not close the door to new developments such as shale gas at an early stage, the EU climate chief said, although she is not inclined to back a moratorium on it.
The European Union should not close the door to new developments such as
shale gas at an early stage, the EU climate chief said, although she is not
inclined to back a moratorium on it.
"I would not be inclined to a moratorium on the basis of what I've heard
so far" on the technology, Connie Hedegaard, EU commissioner for Climate
Action, said during a press conference Friday. "We cannot afford at a very
early stage to say no" to a technology, she added.
Hedegaard also explained that shale gas will likely not have the same strong
development in
Europe
that it's had in other parts
of the world.
The resource, and the technology associated with it, is becoming a matter of
division among EU countries, with
Poland
--largely
in favor of it--and
France
--broadly
opposing it--on the extremes.
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