Brussels says energy-intensive industry is coping well despite US price gap

Industrial energy consumers in the European Union have dealt well with a large energy price differential to peers in the United States but should remain concerned about high prices, the EU executive said in a draft policy paper seen by Reuters and reported by EurActiv.

Europe's industrial energy users have been paying more than twice the electricity price and four times as much for gas as their US peers who have benefited from a boom in shale gas.

ESO: Background information: France reaffirms opposition to shale gas exploration http://www.europeansources.info/record/france-reaffirms-opposition-to-shale-gas-exploration/

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