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Obama orders creation of inter-agency shale group
Publication date: 16 April 2012
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US President Barack Obama on Friday issued an executive order creating a working group to coordinate federal oversight of US shale gas developments. The group will look to streamline a number of parallel regulatory initiatives examining the safety of shale oil and gas extraction, which the American Petroleum Institute has called “uncoordinated, unnecessary and overlapping”.