Environment watchdog OK's fracking, wants better rules

Environment watchdog OK's fracking, wants better rules
By Pattrick Smellie Nov 27 (BusinessDesk) - The controversial oil and gas discovery technique known as fracking is safe when conducted to best practice standards, says the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Jan Wright, in an interim report However, she will spend the next six months assessing whether New Zealand's "fragmented" regulatory system is up to scratch and lays out seven recommendations in the meantime relating to the main factors that should govern hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", operations. "The environmental r...