Wednesday 2 April 2014

Hydraulic fracturing

I am already failing at posting more regularly, but I thought I would share this article:  http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/31/fracking_alternative_europe_russia_gas_unknown

Ignoring the foreign policy aspects of the article, what I like is that it does a very good job of highlighting how much uncertainty there is in the debate over fracking. While it is not really mentioned in the article, the same uncertainties exist around understanding the impacts of this type of development to wildlife. Also interesting to think about what to do when there is a massive economic driver for the development of a resource before you fully know the consequences of the development.

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