Publicado en Sputnik News
30 de marzo de 2016
Spain’s lower house of parliament,
the Congress of Deputies, on Tuesday adopted a draft law that would ban the oil
and gas companies from production with the help of hydraulic fracturing, known
as fracking
MADRID (Sputnik) – The draft law was proposed by the Left
Republicans of Catalonia party and was supported by the parliamentary
majority. Two parties — the right-wing conservative People’s Party and the
center-right regionalist Asturias Forum — voted against the proposal.
The centrist Citizens party abstained from a vote.
The law requires the government to ban all fracking-related
activities, citing environmental concerns.
Over 120 companies have been granted a license for fracking
across Spain. Canadian energy company BNK, which is planning
to extract oil in the Burgos province, is ready to start work
in late 2016.
Fracking is a process in which water mixed with chemical is
pumped underground at high pressure to break apart rock formations
that block the flow of oil or natural gas to the wellhead.
Environmental groups have repeatedly warned that chemical residues left
over from fracking contaminates underground supplies of drinking
water.
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