Hydraulic Fracturing and Environmental Concerns: The Role of Local Government
Journal: Journal of Environmental Law
Year: 2015

This article discusses how local governments, in three different countries, challenge higher levels of government’s decision making that enables hydraulic fracturing, and it explores how these higher levels of government should respond. The article finds that in those countries where at the local level, authorities have regulatory powers in the field of planning and the environment, such as the United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, these powers indeed can and are used to limit o