Fracking
"Fracking has the potential to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible sources of gas and oil, but is regularly in the news because of environmental concerns surrounding the process. First used commercially in the mid-20th Century, only recently has fracking been deployed on a large s...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Cambridge :
RSC
2014.
|
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Issues in Environmental Science and Technology
|
| Subjects: | |
| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009712727406719 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction and overview : the role of shale gas in securing our energy future / Peter Hardy
- Shale gas boom, trade and environmental policies : global economic and environmental analyses in a multidisciplinary modeling framework / Farzad Taheripour, Wallace E. Tyner and Kemal Sarica
- Exploration for unconventional hydrocarbons : shale gas and shale oil / Iain C. Scotchman
- Climate change impacts of shale gas production / John Broderick and Ruth Wood
- The hydrogeological aspects of shale gas extraction in the UK / Robert S. Ward, Marianne E. Stuart and John P. Bloomfield
- Coal seam gas recovery in Australia : economic, environmental and policy issues / Alan Randall
- Prospects for shale gas development in China / Shu Jiang
- Unconventional and unburnable : why going all out for shale gas is the wrong direction for the UK's energy policy / Tony Bosworth.
