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Alternative Fracking - Environmental risk or economic opportunity?

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May 13, 2014

Employees at Central European Petroleum avoid using the word "fracking." The company is in the process of testing in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to see whether an oil extraction site that already exists can be further exploited by hydraulic "stimulation." Greenpeace calls the proposition irresponsible. Alarmed by critical reports from the US, local residents fear the consequences.

Report by Julia Henrichmann and Dorothea Topf

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