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Risks and Risk Governance in Shale Gas Development: Summary of Two Workshops

Risks and Risk Governance in Shale Gas Development: Summary of Two Workshops

National Research Council
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Board on Environmental Change and Society

Paperback

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0309312574
ISBN13: 9780309312578
Publisher: Natl Academy Pr
Published: Oct 30 2014
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Natural gas in deep shale formations, which can be developed by hydraulic fracturing and associated technologies (often collectively referred to as fracking) is dramatically increasing production of natural gas in the United States, where significant gas deposits exist in formations that underlie many states. Major deposits of shale gas exist in many other countries as well. Proponents of shale gas development point to several kinds of benefits, for instance, to local economies and to national energy independence. Shale gas development has also brought increasing expression of concerns about risks, including to human health, environmental quality, non-energy economic activities in shale regions, and community cohesion. Some of these potential risks are beginning to receive careful evaluation; others are not. Although the risks have not yet been fully characterized or all of them carefully analyzed, governments at all levels are making policy decisions, some of them hard to reverse, about shale gas development and/or how to manage the risks.

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