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Thursday, January 15, 2015
The Algerian government is looking for a way to placate protesters in the country. The government is seeing protests over its planned shale gas program.
There is more than one reason the government is anxious to quell the spreading protests besides needing shale gas to boost its energy production, the protests are taking place in a politically charged region of the country. Not only is the region home to its main oil and gas production, but it lies on Algeria’s border with Libya where two factions are fighting it out, and its border with Mali which has long been unstable.
Algeria for the most part has stayed out of the political fray of the Arab Spring launched in neighboring countries more than four years ago, but neighboring Libya has been struggling since the outset. The Algerian government would like to keep itself on good terms with its citizens and continue to avoid civil unrest, so it is looking for a way to appease the residents of the region.
Protesters are concerned that the process of fracking will affect the environment and their health.
“I can reassure all that operations to extract shale gas do not constitute any danger for the population and environment,” Ali Hached, senior advisor to Mines and Energy Minister Youcef Yousfi, said on state radio.
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