Regulatory lag

U.S. Natural Resources Defense Council Energy, Environment and Climate Change has called China Yang Fuqiang, senior advisor to the early establishment of  shale gas  environmental standards.
Yang Fuqiang said that once the shale gas industry development in China, the rate will soon, should be considered ahead of environmental standards and regulations. Otherwise, after a large scale, out of the environmental issues, discipline those responsible will face no legal difficulties.
According to the new financial reporter learned that China is not specifically involved in shale gas environmental standards legal documents.ceramic proppant In fact, not only unconventional shale gas, and even conventional oil and gas, there is no specific legal framework to regulate.
But China's environmental standard setters believe that the current level of development of China's shale gas industry is still very low, so the development of relevant environmental norms conditions are not ripe.
"Standards are very serious thing." One participated in the "oil and gas industry pollution control technology policy," the new wealth of oil who told reporters that shale gas is now no commercial-scale production, it is difficult for their environmental make the right impact assessments, and other industries can only have a certain size, it may be introduced.
According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Technology Standards Department sources, one from the start to the introduction of environmental standards, takes about three to five year period, and from the Ministry of Environmental Protection in 2013 work plan view,fracturing proppant shale gas has not been included.
However, the Ministry of Land and Geological Survey Division to relevant sources, as shale gas has been established as an independent minerals, in a separate document management shale gas will soon be introduced, which will involve groundwater environmental problems. But insiders commented that a red-headed, and between the standards of legal significance, too far away.
October 25, 2012, Chinese Ministry of Land Resources, held in Beijing the second round of shale gas exploration tender, intended to explore the multiple main investment pattern. But public evaluation indicators, and shale gas development is closely related to water resources and pollution prevention issues not reflected.