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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (178889)	7/5/2013 9:32:20 AM
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Shale Backers Sought Scalp, Fired French Energy Minister Says By Tara Patel - Jul 5, 2013 1:17 AM ET bloomberg.com Former French Environment Minister Delphine Batho said her support for a ban on shale drilling and reducing dependence on nuclear power cost her her job. “The battle crystallized notably on the question of shale gas and more discreetly on the reduction of nuclear in France,” Batho said at a press conference yesterday at the National Assembly in Paris. “These forces that I am talking about wanted my scalp...”

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (178889)	7/14/2013 1:45:27 PM
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France's top court to review law banning shale gas fracking reuters.com ...The Constitutional Council, made up of judges and former French presidents, has the power to annul laws if they are deemed to be unconstitutional."It is now up to the Constitutional Council to decide whether the law is constitutional, within three months," the court said... ------ Hollande vows no shale gas exploration while he is president nz.sports.yahoo.com ...President Francois Hollande said on Sunday that France would maintain its ban on the exploration for shale gas throughout his five-year term. "As long as I am president, there were will be no exploration for shale gas," Hollande said during a Bastille Day interview with top television channels. He said the fracking technique used to extract shale gas presented too many "risks to groundwater". "We can see some consequences in the United States" from the technique, Hollande said...