Publication

This CEPS Policy Brief hopes to provide a balanced and concise overview of the development of and concerns surrounding shale gas in the United States, and to explore the extent to which this success story could be replicated in the European Union. It does not aim to investigate how the overall global development of shale gas will affect the EU and its focus is primarily on shale gas as opposed to unconventional gas in its entirety due to the fact that shale gas reserves are larger (particularly in the US), have been more developed and consequently received more attention in political discourse.