WBJ: Ministries look to fine firms for sluggish shale gas exploration
The Ministry of Economy and Ministry of Environment want to implement new regulations imposing fines on companies deemed to be carrying out their shale gas extraction projects too slowly.
Companies which hold shale gas licenses have slowed down their work considerably in recent months, doing only the bare minimum which license agreements require them to. Deputy Minister of Environment Piotr Woźniak told Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, “Out of the three extraction sites I visited recently, not one had extracted the core yet.” Core extraction is necessary for determining the presence of shale gas and the potential size of the deposit. MORE