Click Green: High-level Canadian study calls for moratorium on fracking

An independent report on fracking has recommended a temporary moratorium on the controversial process and says that communities should give permission before it can proceed.

The interdisciplinary expert panel set up by the Nova Scotia regional government says the science of fracking is relatively unknown and therefore its introduction should be delayed in the Province until the science and its environmental effects are better understood.

It recommends continuing scientific, economic and social modelling to test if hydraulic fracturing is the best answer to the Canadian province’s energy needs and makes more than 30 recommendations in cases where fracking is given the go-ahead.

The Report’s conclusions are in stark contrast to the ‘dash for gas’ policy approach taken by the UK and the US governments.
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