Dusseldorf Germany fears a gas crisis after supplies from Russia were drastically reduced in recent weeks as a result of the Ukraine war. Consumers and companies are therefore looking for alternatives as quickly as possible. But natural gas can hardly be replaced as an energy source in heating systems or in many industrial processes in the short term.
This is fueling the debate about fracking: With this technology, so-called unconventional gas deposits that are locked deep in the rock underground can be exploited. Germany also has such deposits. Which is why proponents argue that fracking is a promising way to become less dependent on Russian gas supplies. Critics, on the other hand, fear devastating environmental damage in the USA, where the technology has been used for many years.
In the “Handelsblatt Green” podcast, the former North Rhine-Westphalian Economics Minister, Andreas Pinkwart (FDP), and the Federal Managing Director of the German Environmental Aid, Sascha Müller-Kraenner, discuss the dangers and opportunities of the technology – and the question of why fracking gas from Germany might be used would be better than the one from the US.
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