Oh, it's one thing to poison our drinking water, but when it interferes with beer production, maybe people will pay attention.
Fracking could ruin German beer industry, brewers tell Angela Merkel - Telegraph (Telegraph.co.uk)
German brewers have warned Chancellor Angela Merkel that any law allowing the controversial drilling technique known as fracking could damage the country's cherished beer industry.
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Under the "Reinheitsgebot", or German purity law, brewers have to produce beer using only malt, hops, yeast and water.
"The water has to be pure and more than half Germany's brewers have their own wells which are situated outside areas that could be protected under the government's current planned legislation on fracking," said a Brauer-Bund spokesman.