{"id":2705,"date":"2014-10-28T20:02:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T23:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2014-10-28T20:07:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T23:07:54","slug":"fracking-dollars-and-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=2705","title":{"rendered":"Fracking-Dollars and Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.policyalternatives.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/featured_portrait\/public\/uploads\/blocks\/product\/Screen%20shot%202013-08-26%20at%203.43.12%20PM.png?itok=9CToFtMc\" alt=\"fracking\" \/>In a  commentary posted on the website of the The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Dr. Michael Bradfield clarifies the economics of adopting a serious ban on exploration and exploitation of shale gas reserves. He provides some interesting numbers about the royalties and actual economic benefits, as well as our &#8216;dependency&#8217; on federal transfers. Bradfield was a  member of the Nova Scotia Hydraulic Fracking Review Panel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policyalternatives.ca\/publications\/commentary\/fracking%E2%80%94dollars-and-sense\"> Read more<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a commentary posted on the website of the The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Dr. Michael Bradfield clarifies the economics of adopting a serious ban on exploration and exploitation of shale gas reserves. He provides some interesting numbers about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=2705\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}