Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as it is commonly known, is the method of extracting natural gas from shale rock. Despite environmental concerns over the process of pumping water and chemicals deep into the earth to force out gas which is otherwise trapped, some say that a European shale revolution is on its way.Countries such as France and Denmark have banned fracking, and others have enforced a moratorium to prevent the process from happening in the short term. However, the tide of negative public opinion begins to ebb further East. The Ukraine…
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