Trade Groups Question DOI’s Final Updated Rule for Hydraulic Fracturing on Public, Tribal Lands
View on Oil and Gas Report websiteAlan Krupnick, senior fellow with Resources for the Future in Washington, DC, also saw only a limited effect for operators.
“Our rapid assessment is that, other than for the requirement of frac tanks ... no new ground is being broken vis-à-vis the states as a whole,” Krupnick wrote in an RFF blog. “All that can be said in general is that with state regulations extremely heterogeneous and the ground shifting so quickly, BLM’s regulations are more stringent for some states and less stringent for others.”
