Low-volume fracking to be allowed under new legislative proposal

Ljubljana, 12 January - The government has adopted amendments to the mining act under which low-volume hydraulic fracturing would be allowed but high-volume fracturing banned, legislation that paves the way for fracturing in the only location in Slovenia where it is currently being explored, the Petišovci gas field in the east.

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Petišovci gas field.
Photo: Marjan Maučec/STA

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