The government justifies its opposition to the exploitation of shale gas in view of the US situation

Segolene Royal said Sunday that there would be no exploitation of shale gas, or even investigation on shale gas, as it would be Minister of Ecology.

"As long as I am minister of Ecology, there will be no shale gas and no investigation on shale gas," said she told the "Grand Rendez-vous" Europe 1 / the World / I-TV, in response to a question about the position of Nicolas Sarkozy in favor of exploitation of shale gas inFrance.

"All of our public and private resources should be on energy conservation and renewable energy," she has said. "It's a bubble, shale gas," he said Ms Royal. "There is no question at a time when it was scarce public resources to invest in uncertain and speculative sectors," she has said. "US experts returning from shale gas. There are a lot of environmental damage, then the cost was much higher than expected," she said. "We're starting to see the United States outrageous brownfields, with frightened residents, pockets of poverty and pockets of unemployment" on the abandoned mining sites, continued the minister.

Nicolas Sarkozy had declared Thursday during his first meeting at Lambeth, in favor of exploitation of shale gas in France. "I can not accept that the United States have become the point of view of energy independent thanks to shale gas and that France can not take advantage of this new energy while unemployment is ravaging many of our territories and many of our families, it is unacceptable, "launched the former head of state. Under his term, Parliament voted in July 2011, however a bill UMP Christian Jacob prohibiting the use of hydraulic fracturing technique to exploit shale gas.