- Temperatures might be soaring across Germany but staying warm this winter without Russian gas — which until the start of the Ukraine war supplied over 50% of annual demand — is already a pressing concern.
- The ban, which was due to be reviewed in 2021 but remains in place, extends to deep-lying “unconventional” shale gas deposits that can only be extracted through hydraulic fracturing.
- Fracking also leaks the greenhouse gas methane — the global heating impacts of which are over 80 times higher than CO2 over a 20-year period, noted Sascha Boden, an energy and climate advisor at NGO, Environmental Action Germany.
Will fracking make a comeback in Germany in face of gas crunch? 18.08.2022
