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CALGARY – Just two hours after U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration introduced new regulations for companies fracking for oil and gas on federal lands, an industry association representing a number of Canadian energy companies filed a lawsuit in Wyoming demanding the government drop the new rules.

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The Obama administration issued the first federal regulations for fracking since the drilling technique fuelled a domestic energy boom, requiring extensive disclosures of the chemicals used on public land.

After years of debate and delay, the Bureau of Land Management on Friday said drillers on federal lands must reveal the chemicals they use, meet well construction standards and safely dispose of contaminated water used in fracking.

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U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell said in a conference call Friday morning that existing hydraulic fracturing regulations “have not kept pace” with changes in the American oil industry, in which fracking is now used to produce oil and gas from 90% of new wells.