BERLIN (Bloomberg) -- German groups campaigning against hydraulic fracturing for natural gas handed a petition of 660,000 signatures to Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks seeking to outlaw use of the technology. “There are no good reasons for fracing but large risks for the environment and people’s health,” Ann-Kathrin Schneider of environmental group BUND said Sept. 30 in a statement as the petition was passed to Hendricks in Berlin.
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