To frack or not to frack? Holt’s review of the shale gas moratorium is a betrayal of past promises
Original article ↗Key figures
and $1.7 billion deficit as reasons to reconsider the moratorium on fracking for shale gas, Premier Susan Holt is backtracking on election promises of promoting green energy.
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B.I.A.S. ANALYSIS
NOT DETERMINED
No bias signal detected in this article — this is not a finding of neutrality.
The detector looks for loaded political vocabulary and found none here.
Signal breakdown
Heuristic (v1/v3)
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avg -0.474
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Excerpt from NB Media Co-op
Citing tariff feuds with the U.S. and $1.7 billion deficit as reasons to reconsider the moratorium on fracking for shale gas, Premier Susan Holt is backtracking on election promises of promoting green energy. Her party’s platform on the environment stated, “We are at a turning point… not enough is being done to protect people and […]
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