Just how much shale gas Lithuania has in its underground reserves remains uncertain, the country's environment minister has admitted. Speaking to Europolitics from Vilnius, Kestutis Treciokas explained that “the structure of the ground is very complicated, we only have preliminary data and it is not very encouraging”.
Nonetheless, the Lithuanian government wants to get ready to begin exploiting this resource, which has allowed some countries – particularly the US, to diversify their energy mix. The Baltic countries, which were still…