Rigzone is reporting:
Towards
the end of July, the UK government launched the 14th Landward Licensing
Round, in which several companies keen on unconventional drilling for
oil and gas in the country are expected to apply for licenses.
The use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, techniques in order to
extract shale gas is controversial in the UK. Since the UK government
ended its moratorium on shale gas fracking in December 2012, there have
been a number of protests from environmental activists as well as local
residents around the UK as potential sites have been earmarked by energy
firms for unconventional drilling.
Nevertheless, despite opposition to fracking by a vocal green lobby and
ordinary members of the public, the UK government is pressing ahead with
its plans to facilitate a shale gas industry in the country,
recognizing the need to access shale gas both for Western European
energy security and to boost tax revenues.
Announcing the 14th UK round for onshore oil and gas licensing, the
government revealed that potentially up to half of the UK's territory
could be opened up for shale gas and shale oil development, as well as
conventional oil and gas drilling.
And Spain's constitutional court threw out the country's anti-fracking law:
While France's President Francois Hollande used Bastille Day last year to rule out any shale gas drilling during the term of his presidency, the country's neighbor Spain took steps this June to hasten the development of a shale gas industry. Spain's Constitutional Court threw out a law against fracking for shale gas and oil that had been put in place by the Spanish region of Cantabria in April 2013, explaining that the matter was up to the country's central government.
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