Browsing by Subject "hydraulic fracturing"
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BASELINE GROUNDWATER QUALITY TESTING NEEDS IN THE EAGLE FORD SHALE REGION
(2012-04-27)As the pace of drilling in the Eagle Ford shale increases, so does the potential for groundwater contamination incidents. The goals of this analysis are (1) to determine whether existing baseline groundwater quality data ... -
Differences in the Media’s Framing of Fracking/Shale Gas in New York, Pennsylvania, Germany, and the United Kingdom
(2014-04-25)Over the past decade, commercial mining firms in the United States have increasingly used horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract natural gas from shale rock formations (shale gas). The production ... -
Identifying the Structure and Fate of Wastewater Derived Organic Micropollutants by High-resolution Mass Spectrometry
(2016)Human activities represent a significant burden on the global water cycle, with large and increasing demands placed on limited water resources by manufacturing, energy production and domestic water use. In addition to changing ... -
Partitioning Biological and Anthropogenic Methane Sources
(2014)Methane is an important greenhouse gas, and an ideal target for greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Unlike carbon dioxide, methane has a relatively short atmospheric lifetime, so reductions in methane emissions could have ... -
Shale Public Finance: Local government revenues and costs associated with oil and gas development
(Shale Public Finance: Local government revenues and costs associated with oil and gas development, 2014-05-29)Oil and gas development associated with shale resources has increased substantially in the United States, with important implications for local governments. These governments tend to experience increased revenue from a variety ... -
What the shale? Environmental Risk Perceptions of Hydraulic Fracturing
(2013-04-26)The boom in U.S. natural gas production has sparked a national debate about the known and unknown environmental risks of hydraulic fracturing. This paper analyzes real and perceived risks as a means to illustrate and explain ...
