FRANCE’S ban on hydraulic fracturing has been upheld by the Constitutional Council after a legal challenge by Texan energy company Schuepbach.
The verdict comes as the European Commission said that future plans to exploit shale gas and oil reserves would require an environmental impact study, with French MEP Corrine Lepage saying: "For once, the general interest has won out."
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