LAW PROPOSITION
to prohibit the exploration and exploitation of rock hydrocarbons and to repeal the exclusive exploration licenses for hydrocarbon mines
http://www.senat.fr/leg/ppl10-775.html
Summary: http://www.mediaterre.org/france/actu,2 ... 02831.html
Law proposal to prohibit the exploration and exploitation of rock hydrocarbons and to repeal the exclusive exploration licenses for hydrocarbon mines, N ° 775, registered with the Presidency of the Senate on July 27, 2011.
The exploitation of shale hydrocarbons, an unconventional hydrocarbon by companies in the energy industrial sector is growing. This is due to the uncertainty about traditional energy sources and their increasing costs. As there is no legislation to date regulating the exploitation of this type of energy resource, companies exploit shale hydrocarbons by taking advantage of conventional petroleum exploitation permits.
This unconventional exploitation of hydrocarbons has existed for more than 10 years in North America and has increasingly serious impacts on the environment and on sustainable development.
On the one hand, this bill attempts to fill in the gaps in legislation relating to the exploration and exploitation of this gas. On the other hand, it proposes modifications as well as restrictions to bring to the law n ° 2011-835 of July 13th.
The drafters of this project consider that Law No. 2011-835 of July 13 is unsatisfactory. It only prohibits the exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons by recourse to hydraulic fracturing. However, techniques other than fracking exist which are also dangerous for the environment and for health. This is for example "the technique of" pneumatic fracturing "which consists in injecting not water but compressed air into the bedrock in order to disintegrate it, or in using fracturing by injecting gelled propane (two techniques currently being tested in the United States) ". Moreover, the law fails to define this technique, which constitutes a source of legal uncertainty.
It also allows experimentation to evaluate the hydraulic fracturing technique or other alternative techniques, which undermines the principle of prohibiting recourse to hydraulic fracturing, the subject of this law. Finally, "it does not repeal the disputed permits".
The authors of this preposition of law wish to ban the exploration and exploitation of unconventional hydrocarbons on the national territory, given the environmental and health risks they represent. However, other techniques exist.
A problem arises, it is that there is not yet a distinction between the different types of conventional or non-conventional carbides. It is therefore advisable to explicitly introduce terminology making it possible to identify these shale gases and oils. One of the objects of this bill is to repeal the exclusive licenses to explore for liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon mines to make it possible to distinguish between exploration and exploitation licenses for conventional hydrocarbons from those that are not conventional.
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