German Chancellor Olaf Scholz remains opposed to allowing fracking in his country, despite the gas crisis roiling Europe and in the face of calls for an existing ban to be lifted … including from within his governing coalition. “Previous federal governments have examined these projects. The resistance on the ground was so great that they were never realized,” Scholz told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, adding that fracking is also not necessary in Germany. Germany currently bans fracking, a process in which gas or oil is extracted from rock strata using pressure and chemicals, which can pose …