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Scandal in France, a deputy accuses the government of secretly allowing fracking in its ex colony of Algeria. If France really is fracking in Algeria, the gas would be twice as harmful to our climate emergency as coal. And if the new gas pipeline from Timimoun built by TOTAL brings this gas to the general gas network, it would also reach the two gas pipelines that supply two thirds of Iberia’s gas (22 bcm).
And the Spanish government has announced several times that the new controversial Midcat gas pipeline would serve to ‘export gas from Algeria to France’.
We have published an article ”Algeria Green-lights climate-lethal Fracking Gas with EU Imperialists TOTAL and CEPSA, 18 Jan 2018 ” detailing the decision of the Algerian government to renounce the ban on fracking. We included the news that fracking would start at the Timimoun gas field in the south west desert.
Timimoun, where the fracking may begin, is the ancient center of 200 magical oasis villages set into majestic cliffs. All are 100% dependent on clean aquifer water.
But then came another report that fracking would take time to organize and the extraction in Timimoun, Ahnet and Reggane, (which starts already in April 2018 with 40 wells only in Timimoun) by TOTAL, CEPSA, and Sonatrach, will be by conventional methods, and that only by chance was it announced along with the news that fracking will begin. (But TOTAL has explored and developed these places for decades and in the US a fracking drill is assembled in a matter of weeks.) Continue reading “‘France is secretly Fracking Algeria already’.. claims French MP”
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