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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, Jan. 11 – Exploration surveys that oil giant Shell is planning to conduct during this year in a southern Albanian region have triggered concerns among some local government officials who fear local protected areas and tourism prospects could be hampered. In a public hearing that the global oil giant held this week in Gjirokastra, a UNESCO World Heritage site in southern Albania, Shell’s ambitious plans to search for oil and gas in the county of Gjirokastra were met with resistance by local government officials of the Libohova municipality, one of the seven Gjirokastra municipalities were Shell…