The day prior Quebec's environmental review board released a report finding that there are «too many potential negative consequences to the environment and to society from extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits along the St. Lawrence River.» (desmogblog.com)
7 December 2011: Northern Ireland's Assembly has voted for a moratorium on «fracking», a method of extracting natural gas from shale, pending an environmental assessment. (keeptapwatersafe.org)
Ernst, whose suit is still before the courts, is hardly alone in her concerns; regulators in both the U.S. and Canada, confronting such messy conflicts, are taking a much tougher look at a technique for extracting natural gas from shale or coal - seam formations using high - pressure infusions of water and chemicals. (canadianbusiness.com)