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Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Bogdan Kazimierz MARCINKIEWICZ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Understands shale gas exploration and extraction to refer to any unconventional hydrocarbon exploration and extraction using horizontal drilling and ~~high-volume~~ hydraulic fracturing, technologies which are utilised in fossil fuels industries world-wide;

2012/06/05
Committee: JURI

Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Bogdan Kazimierz MARCINKIEWICZ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

Calls on the Commission to bring forward proposals to ensure that the provisions of the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive adequately cover the specificities of shale gas exploration and extraction, to include hydraulic fracturing in Annex III to the Environmental Liability Directive, to require compulsory financial security or insurance to cover environmental damage, and to have shale gas extraction included under the Industrial Emissions Directive (2010/75/EU) and made subject to the requirements regarding Best Available Techniques, in addition to the waste water treatment requirements under the Mining Waste Directive;deleted

2012/06/05
Committee: JURI

Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Bogdan Kazimierz MARCINKIEWICZ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5a (new)

5a. Recalls that the Guidance Note Ref. Ares (2011)1339393 dated 12/12/2011 of the Commission, DG Environment, confirms that the Council Directive 85/337/EEC, as amended and as codified by Directive 2011/92/EU, on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (known as the Environmental Impact Assessment or the EIA Directive) sufficiently covers exploration and exploitation of unconventional hydrocarbons; calls on the Member States, the industry and environmental groups to assess the selection criteria of Annex III of the EIA Directive as transposed by the relevant Member State and tailor the selection criteria, if not already covered or required, to the needs of drilling operations using hydraulic fracturing; Recalls that if hydraulic fracturing as technology is being used, such technology is part of the overall conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon exploration and extraction activities, which are covered by the above mentioned EU environmental legislation (see 3) and Directive 94/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 1994 on the conditions for granting and using authorizations for the prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons; Recalls that hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation uses standards and practices that exceed regulatory requirements, recognizing that regulations and standards are not static but evolve and improve as new information and technologies become available; therefore, the industry develops, in transparency with local regulatory bodies, environmental groups and communities, recommended standards and practices on the basis of generally accepted scientific and engineering principles;

2012/06/05
Committee: JURI

Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Bogdan Kazimierz MARCINKIEWICZ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

~~Concurs with the Commission analysis that Article 11(3)(j) of the Water Framework Directive does not allow the injection of flow-back water into geological formations for disposal~~deleted

2012/06/05
Committee: JURI

Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Bogdan Kazimierz MARCINKIEWICZ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7a (new)

Recalls that, when conducting the hydraulic fracturing technology with an average of 2000 – 3000 meters below the groundwater level, there is no direct discharge of pollutants into the groundwater as defined in Article 11(3)(j) juncto Article 2, 32, juncto Article 2, 2° of the Water Framework Directive; Calls on the industry, in transparency with national regulatory bodies, environmental groups and communities, to take measures necessary to prevent any deterioration of the status of all relevant bodies of groundwater, in order to maintain the good groundwater status as defined in the Water Framework Directive and the Groundwater Directive;

2012/06/05
Committee: JURI

5 Amendments of Tadeusz ZWIEFKA related to 2011/2308(INI)

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