Shale Drilling Must Improve to Protect Environment, GDF Says
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The technology used to extract oil and gas from shale rocks, a process that has revolutionized the U.S. energy industry, should be improved to protect the environment, the head of Europe’s largest gas company said.
“There are concerns about the environmental impact,” Gerard Mestrallet, chief executive officer of GDF Suez SA, said in an interview at Bloomberg’s headquarters in New York. “Probably it can be improved and probably it has to be improved.”