Analysis and presentation of the results of the public consultation "Unconventional fossil fuels (e.g. shale gas) in Europe : final report

This report describes results of the public consultation on unconventional fossil fuels, which generated 22 875 responses, with citizen contributions accounting more than 95% of the total. More than 90% of citizen responses came from five EU countries: Poland, France, Romania, Spain and Germany. There were 696 responses from organisations, including 33% from companies and 32% from NGOs. This report presents the answers of individuals, private organisations and public authorities to the nine closed questions and five open-ended questions of the online public consultation on unconventional fossil fuels. Summary statistics are presented, and complemented with: The use of illustrative weights to understand the sensitivity of the results of the public consultation to the different participation levels found among EU countries; A correlation analysis to identify patterns of answers for specific groups of respondents.