CHEVRON VS. PUNGEŞTI, ROMANIA
CHEVRON VS. PUNGEŞTI, ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: The issue of operating the shale gases (non-conventional gases) divided Romanians in two categories: some are against the operation (and they are considered in the opposite category as supporters of the interests of Russia, since Romania is importing natural conventional gases mainly from Russia), the others are for (and they are considered in the opposite category as supporters of the interests of USA since the 4 existent oil agreements for shale gases were issued to the American company Chevron). How about the national interest which represents an amount of interests targeting on the one hand national security and on the other hand, its prosperity. It is certain that a judge of Vaslui County Court created the test case, taking in three cases the decision that a commune is legally entitled to decide related to the exploitation of shale gases on its territory, not the Government or another central authority, since this resource is not ruled in Romania and wasn’t declared either of national public interest.

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