If hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, wasn't already the hottest topic on the energy front, then it's now firing up with the arrival of summer. The month of June witnessed a number of major fracking-related events by different states in the U.S. and even the world, including three bans, one ban reversal, a disclosure law and a gift to the gas industry. This cluster of events underscores just how quickly the natural gas extraction method is expanding and how controversial it remains.
Below is a roundup of some of these events that have taken place over the last month (or so), something that we track in our ongoing Ecocentric hydraulic fracturing series....
...Maryland: Governor bans fracking by executive order.
Governor O'Malley issued an executive order that bars fracking in Maryland until a comprehensive, cumulative study is conducted. Since an earlier bill banning fracking died in the General Assembly, some viewed the order simply as a political ploy to bolster the environmentalist vote and pursue wind energy instead, while others thought that it made sense for a scientific inquiry to proceed on the relatively understudied extraction process.
Garrett County, in the western part of the state, is the region where fracking could potentially occur, since it's located over the Marcellus Shale."
Read the full article here.
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