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Fracturing Debate? A Review of Research on Media Coverage of “Fracking”
Frontiers in Communication, 2018 Hydraulic fracturing is an energy extraction process that is increasingly attracting controversy. This article seeks to outline how the media report hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”), and to explore its place within the reporting of energy concerns ...
Julian Matthews, Anders Hansen
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Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 Reproductive hardship is highly stigmatized, which leads to such struggles being relegated to the private sphere. At the same time, numerous studies show links between toxic chemicals and reproductive hardship including miscarriage, infertility, and ...
Mollie K. Murphy +3 more
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Home rule and natural gas development in New York: civil fracking rights
Journal 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
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Enzyme biotechnology development for treating polymers in hydraulic fracturing operations
Microbial Biotechnology, 2021 Summary Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) is a polymer used in many different industrial sectors. In the oil and gas industry, CMC is often used during hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations as a thickening agent for effective proppant delivery ...
Gabrielle Scheffer +3 more
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Evaluation and Economics of Shale Gas Reserves in the Flysch-Eocene Formation of the Jaca Basin
Applied Sciences, 2023 The new international outlook for the gas sector suggests evaluating exploitable reserves in previously unconsidered areas including hydraulic fracturing technology.
Laura M. Valle-Falcones +3 more
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Assessing Hydraulic Fracking Issues in the US South East and Western Region
Energy and Power, 2021 In the last several years, the choice of hydrological fracking as an alternative method of nonrenewable energy production in the US oil sector continues to gain currency across regions especially the Southeast and the West. In a country where fracking is no longer deemed as an exercise on the fringe amidst unprecedented expansion, economic boom, and ...
E. C. Merem +12 more
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Anti-fracking mobilisation and the “ordinance movement” in Argentina
Revue Internationale des Études du Développement, 2023 This paper presents a sociological and legal analysis of a mode of action – municipal regulations promulgation – within a legal repertoire of action employed by opponents to Vaca Muerta’s unconventional hydrocarbon formation exploitation using the ...
Tobias Etienne-Greenwood +1 more
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Mizan Law ReviewThe crude oil, gas and energy global setting is rapidly changing owing to the concern for global warming and the quest for alternative renewable and sustainable energy sources.
Kato Gogo Kingston
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The risk of hydraulic fracturing on public health in the UK and the UK’s fracking legislation [PDF]
Environmental Sciences Europe, 2015 Hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from shale rock is a new, rapidly expanding industry in the United States (US). However, there is concern that these operations could be having large negative impacts such as groundwater contamination, increased air pollution and seismic events.
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A Comprehensive Guide to Different Fracturing Technologies: A Review
Energies, 2020 Hydraulic fracturing has made the production of gas more economical. Shale gas possesses the potential to arise as a main natural gas source worldwide. It has been assessed that the top 42 countries, including the U.S., are predicted to own 7299 trillion
M. S. Liew +2 more
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