France, how can you square your ban on fracking with the import of shale oil?

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Aug. 29, 2016

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Energy Post

"In August 2016, Resources for the Future noted in a paper on the economics of conventional versus unconventional oil and gas (p16): 'Following the massive increase in unconventional drilling and collapse in gas prices, conventional gas wells have all but disappeared.'"

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