COMMENT: A pause in US federal energy leases is the least of the fracking industry’s worries
By William Clarke
Published: Monday, 01 February 2021
US President Joe Biden’s first moves to reshape the country’s energy industry could have been a lot worse for the fracking sector, but the devil may be in the details.
The recent change in the government of the United States
brought with it fears among the oil and gas industry that the
former support from the White House would turn to regulation
and restriction.
The governor of Texas is already threatening action to
protect jobs in the state’s lucrative
fracking...