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How distance influences dislike: Responses to proposed fracking in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

open access: yesMoravian Geographical Reports, 2019
Despite extensive social science research into public perceptions and social responses to fracking, scholars have only begun to examine the relationship between distance to development and support or opposition for it.
Craig Kerrie   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Home rule and natural gas development in New York: civil fracking rights

open access: yesJournal of Political Ecology, 2014
This paper explores the way community understanding of the impact and infrastructure associated with hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has translated into social action within the social, political, and ecological context of rural New York State, USA.
Jeanne Simonelli
doaj   +1 more source

Embryonic self-fracking [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2019
Mammalian embryos use controlled hydraulic fracturing to sculpt their ...
Arroyo Balaguer, Marino   +1 more
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The Human Right to Water and Unconventional Energy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Access to water, in sufficient quantities and of sufficient quality is vital for human health. The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (in General Comment 15, drafted 2002) argued that access to water was a condition for the ...
Auch, Walter E. Ted   +2 more
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Insights into How HIAs are Characterized in the Press: Findings from a Media Analysis of Widely Circulated United States Newspapers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: Health impact assessments (HIAs) are burgeoning tools in the policy process, where the media plays a critical role by focusing attention on issues, informing consumers, and influencing positions.
Coughenour, Courtney, PhD   +4 more
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En el vientre de la bestia. Reconstrucción relacional de la campaña contra el fracking en Texas

open access: yesEstudios Sociológicos, 2019
Este artículo ofrece un relato relacional del surgimiento, desarrollo, e impacto de un movimiento social en contra del fracking urbano en Denton, Texas.
Javier Auyero   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anisotropy in Fracking: A Percolation Model for Observed Microseismicity

open access: yes, 2014
Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) using high pressures and a low viscosity fluid allow the extraction of large quantiles of oil and gas from very low permeability shale formations.
Norris, J. Quinn   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Fracking – Technologie mit Gefährdungspotential

open access: yessui-generis, 2016
Fracking-Vorhaben zur Gasförderung in der Schweiz sind nicht nur in Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft umstritten. Sie werfen auch bedeutende Rechtsfragen über die Nutzung des Untergrunds und zum Schutz der Umwelt, insbesondere dem Gewässerschutz, auf.
Jasmin Grossenbacher   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Balancing Hydraulic Fracturing’s Environmental and Economic Impacts: The Need for a Comprehensive Federal Baseline and the Provision of Local Rights [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Reliable evaluation methods is needed to ensure that investments in energy conservation measures (ECMs) and the construction of new energy efficient buildings lives up to the promised and expected performance.
Garmezy, Adam
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Natural Cash - How the Fracking Industry Fuels Congress [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The fracking boom isn't just good for the industry, but also for congressional candidates in fracking districts. Our analysis of federal campaign data found contributions from the industry to House and Senate candidates from districts and states home to ...

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