Mexico Opens the Door to ‘Fracking’ After the Veto Years of López Obrador

El Pais

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In the previous six years, fracking was a red line in Mexican energy policy. A clear and defended veto from power. Today, that line begins to blur. The hydraulic fracture allows extracting gas and oil trapped in deep rock formations. Claudia Sheinbaum's government has opened the door to employ this technical polemic to raise the country's natural gas production and thus reduce imports of this vital input from the US.