Romania – Some Legal Facts on Gas from Shale

A decade ago, few people in Romania had heard about gas from shale, despite the pioneering and promising prospects in the US at that time. However, the fierce opposition that we are witnessing today against such energy resource reminds us of the antinuclear demonstrations in Western Germany back in the eighties, a phenomenon which was never known in our country. Strangely enough, no other type of resource (even the most polluting ones like coal, or the ones with potentially large and long term scale risks on the environment, like nuclear energy) has generated such intensive debates in Romania, as the issue of gas from shale.

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