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    EurActiv: Commission’s Fracking Advisors Controlled by Lobbyists, Claim NGOs

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Friends of the Earth have walked out of the Commission's Joint Research Centre’s in protest at its perceived tainting by shale lobbyists

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EurActiv: Commission’s Fracking Advisors Controlled by Lobbyists, Claim NGOs

Environmental campaigners and the shale gas industry have clashed amid accusations that companies are controlling an influential European Commission group advising on fracking policy.

Friends of the Earth Europe walked out of the Joint Research Centre’s (JRC) European Science and Technology Network on Unconventional Hydrocarbon Extraction. The JRC is the Commission’s in-house science service. It is meant to objectively inform EU policymaking.

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