Grist: France`s energy minister looked at the destruction being wrought on America`s environment by hydraulic fracturing and said "non, merci" to the latest push by her country`s business lobby to make fracking legal.
Fracking was banned in France in 2011, and it looks like it`s going to stay banned. From Bloomberg:
Frances ban on hydraulic fracturing should not be eased because the oil and gas drilling technique is causing considerable environmental damage in the U.S., according to a government...