NGO warns mining act changes allow fracking in Petišovci

Ljubljana, 18 January - The environmental NGO Focus is critical of the government-sponsored changes to the mining act as it believes they open the door to hydraulic fracturing or fracking in Slovenia's Petišovci and, consequently, to public health and environmental hazards in the local environment.

Lendava The Pg-10 and Pg-11A wells that Ascent Resources wants to re-stimulate. Photo: Marjan Maučec/STA File photo

Lendava
The Pg-10 and Pg-11A wells that Ascent Resources wants to re-stimulate.
Photo: Marjan Maučec/STA
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