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Fracking [PDF]

open access: possible, 2013
Der weltweite Energieverbrauch ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten kräftig gestiegen und es ist davon auszugehen, dass sich dieser Prozess in den nächsten Jahren fortsetzen wird. Dabei kommt das starke Nachfragewachstum besonders aus den Schwellenländern, die für ihre stark wachsenden Volkswirtschaften große Mengen an Energie benötigen.
Pflüger, Wolfgang   +4 more
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Fracking

2017
Few environmental issues have received more media attention than fracking (hydraulic fracturing) for oil and gas development in shales and other unconventional resources. This chapter provides an objective overview of the potential impacts on groundwater and the need for better groundwater monitoring to resolve some of the uncertainties.
William M. Alley, Rosemarie Alley
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Environmental injustice: Fracking

Public Health Nursing, 2021
AbstractIndividuals have rights not only to health care but also to a safe environment including clean water sources and ambient air. These rights should be protected regardless of demographic variables. Unfortunately, there are injustices that infringe upon these human rights including the hydraulic fracturing of shale rock or “fracking.” Fracking is ...
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Getting Fracked: Gender Politics in Fracking Discourse

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2021
AbstractHydraulic fracturing, commonly called “fracking,” refers to the technology used to extract natural gas primarily from shale bedrock.
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Fracking and health

BMJ, 2018
The scale of harm to health is uncertain, but the danger of exacerbating climate change is ...
McCoy, D, Saunders, P
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Fracking growth [PDF]

open access: possible, 2014
This paper estimates the effect of the shale oil and gas boom in the United States on local economic outcomes. The main source of exogenous variation to be explored is the location of previously unexplored shale deposits. These have become technologically recoverable through the use of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.
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Geoscience: Fracking fundamentals

Nature, 2014
Scientists in the United States who are looking to ride the gas-exploration boom can find a variety of options for employment, from chemical research to environmental monitoring.
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Fracking Communities

Public Culture, 2016
This photo-essay examines how the leasing of private and public land for shale gas extraction (“fracking”) in Pennsylvania has initiated a “tragedy of the commons” in historically communal locales, degrading common-pool resources and weakening long-standing norms of sovereignty and reciprocity.
Colin Jerolmack, Nina Berman
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