To the extent that any villager living in El Faouar, on the edge of the Tunisian Sahara, will know more about the misdeeds of the nearby company than almost any French citizen. Hydraulic fracturing, unconventional gas extraction, experimental shale drilling and compact gas extraction...
"Impossible n'est pas français !", and where the Tunisian Hydrocarbons Code doesn't authorise such extraction processes, mainly for environmental reasons, Perenco has managed to do it anyway. An unregulated extraction activity, supported by a network of offshore companies based in the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands, for an extra touch of secrecy.
Another journalist prefers to remain anonymous for security reasons, but is known to our organisation.
On the right: Le site d’extraction d’El Franig. Image by Alexandre Brutelle
