Fracking in Europe: the potential and the pitfalls
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Published: Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Could shale gas provide the answer to global energy concerns? There are vast untapped resources in Europe, but fracking, the controversial method of extraction, could prove to be the stumbling block as Vasili Nicoletopoulos* explains
Shale gas, a natural gas trapped in rocks, could eventually
greatly expand global supplies of energy. It is increasingly
adopted in the US and reports show vast untapped resources in
Europe. But hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’ , the
method of extraction which involves pumping pressurised water,
chemicals and sand underground,...