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Is Shale Gas a Global Game Changer?
Event type:
Lecture, Evening Meeting
Organised by:
East Midlands Regional Group, British Geological Survey
Venue:
BGS Conference Suite, Keyworth
Event status:
EVENT CLOSED
The key shale gas extraction technology, hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’), has had a bad press in the last year, and been blamed for earthquakes and methane contamination of groundwater. However there are relatively few peer-reviewed studies of methane contamination during shale gas fracking, and rather problematically, there are few baseline studies of amounts of natural methane in groundwater.
The talk will survey the potential for shale gas and discuss environmental concerns, as well as outlining the role of independent and peer-reviewed science in shale gas development.
Speaker
Professor Mike Stephenson (BGS)
Time
Refreshments from 6:30pm, lecture starts at 7pm