Prose by Victorian Women

The legal and regulatory framework for the EU’ shale gas exploration and production regulating public health and environmental impacts

“…There are also technical standards set up in the oil and gas industry which has to be followed in shale gas activities too, namely ISO 10426-1 which covers well cementing, ISO10405 for casings and ISO 11961 for Drill pipes. 190 The Recommendations are that there should be a minimum distance kept between water protection and residential areas from the authorised operational areas. A minimum vertical separation risk assessment should be done between the groundwater and areas to be fractured by maintaining minimum limitations of depth.…”