The recent report dealing with reforms to the loi minier or French Mining Code have sidestepped the issue of hydraulic fracking/fracturing dealing only with 'permitted activities'. Under the current legislation ( loi Jacob of July 2011 ) fracking is not allowed in France.
Read a report here ( in French but an easy matter to copy and paste the material into Google Translator ): http://www.la-croix.com/Actualite/France/Le-nouveau-code-minier-tire-les-lecons-de-la-controverse-sur-les-gaz-de-schiste-2013-12-10-1073987
So, the mess that pertained at the time when the Sarkozy government secretly allowed permits for areas like Cahors in 2010 remains.
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