Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-11-21-Speech-3-285-500"
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"en.20121121.20.3-285-500"2
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"This report tries to promote the exploration and extraction of unconventional shale gas and oil, taking into account the industrial and energy market aspects, in pursuit of the European Commission’s objective of making gas a substantial element in the transition of the energy system to the ‘decarbonised economy’. It argues for the establishment of the infrastructures needed by the sector, while expressing the concern that this activity should be sustainable in financial terms. These aspects not only give us cause for concern, but also exclude the fundamental environmental issues. The capture of shale gas is currently a highly controversial technique due to the environmental impact and complexity of the operation, 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. This process poses huge environmental risks, particularly in terms of the contamination of groundwater or watercourses draining from schistose rock masses, due to the injected chemicals. The rock masses can also be left unstable, with the release of methane into the atmosphere. This is an issue on which, at the very least, there should be a moratorium. We voted against the report."@en1
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