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1 online resource |
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Print version record. |
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Environmental and Health Issues in Unconventional Oil and Gas Development offers a series of authoritative perspectives from varied viewpoints on key issues relevant in the use of directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, providing a timely presentation of requisite information on the implications of these technologies for those connected to unconventional oil and shale gas development. Utilizing expertise from a range of contributors in academia, non-governmental organizations, and the oil and gas industry, Environmental and Health Issues in Unconventional Oil and Gas Development is an essential resource for academics and professionals in the oil and gas, environmental, and health and safety industries as well as for policy makers. |
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Includes index. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The unconventional oil and gas process, and an introduction to exposure pathways / Uni Blake -- Hydraulic fracturing for shale gas: economic rewards and risks / Alan J. Krupnick -- Methane emissions from the natural gas supply chain / David Richard Lyon -- A review of drinking water contamination associated with hydraulic fracturing / Elyse Rester, Scott D. Warner -- Water use and wastewater management: interrelated issues with unique problems and solutions / Daniel J. Price, Carl Adams, Jr -- A primer on litigation that involves alleged water well contamination from hydraulic fracturing / Craig P. Wilson, Anthony R. Holtzman -- Occupational health and safety aspects of oil and gas extraction / Eric J. Esswein, Kyla Retzer, Bradley King, Margaret Cook-Shimanek -- Public health, risk perception, and risk communication: unconventional shale gas in the United States and the European Union / Bernard D. Goldstein, Ortwin Renn, Aleksander S. Jovanovic -- Transportation of shale gas and oil resources / Alicia Jaeger Smith, Matthew M. Murphy -- An evaluation of the hydraulic fracturing literature for the determination of cause-effect relationships and the analysis of environmental risk and sustainability / MariAnna K. Lane, Wayne G. Landis -- Induced seismicity / Robert Westaway -- State and federal oil and gas regulations / Karen J. Anspaugh -- An international perspective of challenges and constraints in shale gas extraction / Katharine Blythe, Robert Jeffries, Mark Travers. |
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Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects.
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Hydraulic fracturing -- Health aspects.
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Fracturation hydraulique -- Aspect de l'environnement.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mining.
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Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects
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Kaden, Debra Ann.
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Rose, Tracie, editor.
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Print version: Environmental and health issues in unconventional oil and gas development. Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2015, ©2016 0128041110 9780128041116 (OCoLC)921863840 |
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0128041250 (electronic bk.) |
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9780128041253 (electronic bk.) |
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9780128041116 |
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0128041110 |
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AU@ 000056966376 |
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DEBSZ 473873664 |
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DEBSZ 482468408 |
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GBVCP 85673327X |
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UKMGB 017635181 |
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AU@ 000062645863 |
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