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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (176151)	1/31/2013 2:56:49 PM
From: Dennis Roth	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 206183

FEATURE: Ukraine sets shale gas agenda, but opposition grows London (Platts)--30Jan2013/506 am EST/1006 GMT platts.com LEGAL CHALLENGES Legal action is being prepared to challenge the Shell deal, both on technical and environmental grounds. On January 25, Ukraine's second political party mounted a legal challenge against the approval of the Yuzivska project. The Front for Change party filed a lawsuit seeking to cancel the January 16 approval by the Donetsk council of the Yuzivska project, arguing that it had not been properly debated within the community and could be corrupt... ...Shell is expected to invest $410 million to drill the first 15 wells, Oleh Proskuriakov, the environment and natural resources minister, said earlier in January. The total area of the Yuzivska field is 7,886 sq km. The deposit could hold 4.05 Tcm of gas, according to the government...

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (176151)	2/2/2013 11:28:06 AM
From: Dennis Roth	2 Recommendations Respond to of 206183

Full Throttle Ahead: US Tips Global Power Scales with Fracking By SPIEGEL Staff spiegel.de --- Under Pressure: Once Mighty Gazprom Loses Its Clout By Stefan Schultz and Benjamin Bidder spiegel.de --- German upper house passes resolution to tighten fracking rules uk.reuters.com "This is about rejecting the use of this technology until the risks are cleared up 100 percent," Torsten Albig, the Social Democrat (SPD) premier of the northern state of Schleswig Holstein, said in the Bundesrat, adding peoples' safety had to be the top priority... ...The resolution was proposed by states run by the opposition SPD and Greens in the house where Merkel's centre-right coalition do not have majority... ...The Bundesrat resolution does not, however, compel the government to do anything.