AMERICAN FRACKING YIELDS ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL EXPERIENCE FOR BRITAIN’S NASCENT SHALE GAS SECTOR
October 1st, 2018
AS the USA continues to expand its shale gas production, environmentalists are keeping a close eye on how this increasingly large industry is managing its pollution. For the American sector is huge. The USA produced 16.86 trillion cubic feet of shale gas in 2017, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), accounting for around 62% of all US natural gas production during the year.
These are astonishing figures: in 2000, shale gas accounted for just 1% of all US gas; even in 2009 the figure was just 20%. Dr Fatih Birol, executive director of the ...
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