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German Environment Minister: We Want to Limit Fracking
2013-02-11 18:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Germany's environment minister said on Monday he did not want to make it easy for companies to "frack" for shale gas and could not see the practice happening in his country in the "forseeable future". Pending rules for the drilling techniques would likely be tightened, said Peter Altmaier, a conservative politician in chancellor Angela Merkel's government. "The message is we want to limit fracking, we don't want to facilitate it," he told Deutschlandfunk radio. "And anyway I don't see in the...
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