{"id":21671,"date":"2012-09-24T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=21671"},"modified":"2012-09-22T15:52:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T14:52:36","slug":"france-says-no-to-genetically-modified-crops-no-to-fracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/09\/france-says-no-to-genetically-modified-crops-no-to-fracking\/","title":{"rendered":"France Says No to Genetically Modified Crops, No to Fracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France will maintain its ban on genetically modified crops [GMOs] and will ban fracking, politicians announced during an environmental conference held in Paris Friday and Saturday [Sep 14-15, 2012].<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government is keeping its moratorium on the cultivation of GMO seeds currently authorized in the European Union,&#8221; Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told the conference in Paris on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/09\/15\/france-environment-gmo-idUSL5E8KF1OH20120915\" >reports<\/a> that the ban specifically targets Monsanto&#8217;s MON810 maize, as it is the only GMO currently allowed in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The ban was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2012\/may\/22\/french-ban-gm-maize-rejected\" >originally<\/a> enacted in 2008, was overturned by a French court in 2011, and was reinstated in March.<\/p>\n<p>At the opening of the conference, President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tempsreel.nouvelobs.com\/societe\/20120915.FAP8334\/environnement-ayraut-promet-une-feuille-de-route.html\" >declared the banning of shale gas drilling, or fracking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hollande <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tempsreel.nouvelobs.com\/societe\/20120915.FAP8334\/environnement-ayraut-promet-une-feuille-de-route.html\" >stated<\/a> that &#8220;no one&#8221; could be sure that fracking was free from &#8220;serious risks to health and the environment&#8221; and said that seven requests for fracking permits that had previously been submitted to the state are rejected.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2012\/09\/16\" >Go to Original \u2013 commondreams.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France will maintain its ban on genetically modified crops [GMOs] and will ban fracking, politicians announced during an environmental conference held in Paris Friday and Saturday [Sep 14-15, 2012].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}