{"id":849,"date":"2017-04-07T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egsnews.eurogeosurveys.org\/?p=849"},"modified":"2017-04-07T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:27:08","slug":"no-technological-ban-of-hydraulic-fracturing-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egsnews.eurogeosurveys.org\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"No technological ban of hydraulic fracturing in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Bern, 3 March 2017 \u2013 the Federal Council (the 7-member government of Switzerland) stated its position on the use of the subsurface by hydraulic fracturing (fracking). The application of the technology should in general be possible under certain conditions, in particular when associated with drillings to extract geothermal heat from great depths. However, the Federal Council does not support the development of natural gas reserves by hydraulic fracturing due to Switzerland\u2019s climate policy. At the same time, the Federal Council sees no reason for a moratorium. Swisstopo, Switzerland\u2019s geological survey, will follow the acquisition and valorisation of these geological underground data.<\/p>\n<p>The link to this press release is (French, Italian and German): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.admin.ch\/gov\/fr\/accueil\/documentation\/communiques.msg-id-65882.html\">https:\/\/www.admin.ch\/gov\/fr\/accueil\/documentation\/communiques.msg-id-65882.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASE Bern, 3 March 2017 \u2013 the Federal Council (the 7-member government of Switzerland) stated its position on the use of the subsurface by hydraulic fracturing (fracking). The application of the technology should in general be possible under certain conditions, in particular when associated with drillings to extract geothermal heat from great depths. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[99,197,196],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egsnews.eurogeosurveys.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egsnews.eurogeosurveys.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egsnews.eurogeosurveys.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egsnews.eurogeosurveys.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egsnews.eurogeosurveys.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/egsnews.eurogeosurveys.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"http:\/\/egsnews.eurogeosurveys.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egsnews.eurogeosurveys.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egsnews.eurogeosurveys.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egsnews.eurogeosurveys.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egsnews.eurogeosurveys.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}