European countries should make a push to start producing shale gas if they hope to reduce reliance on Russian natural gas, Britain’s energy minister said on Monday. “There are a number of European countries that are extremely dependent on Russian gas,” Britain’s Minister of State for Business and Energy Michael Fallon told Reuters. “Europe has to reduce that dependence, to improve its connectivity, to look at encouraging more diverse sources of supply of gas … and more generally to encourage indigenous sources of production of at least shale gas.” --Reuters, 6 May 2014
