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    FriedlNews: Austrian Environment Minister Against Fracking

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Nikolaus Berlakovich, Austria's Minister of Environmental and Agricultural Affairs, maintains his stance that the fracking technique used in shale gas exploitation would be extremely environmentally harmful.

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FriedlNews: Austrian Environment Minister Against Fracking

Nikolaus Berlakovich thinks that shale gas is no alternative. Fracking would be "extremely environmentally harmful“.

The Austrian Minister of Environmental and Agricultural Affairs reformed the environmental impact assessment act. In future, shale gas drillings and test drillings have to be examined according to the environmental impact assessment act.  MORE