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Hydraulic fracturing by country

Index Hydraulic fracturing by country

Hydraulic fracturing has become a contentious environmental and health issue with Tunisia and France banning the practice and a de facto moratorium in place in Quebec (Canada), and some of the states of the US. [1]

82 relations: Africa, African National Congress, Agence France-Presse, Alberta, AllAfrica.com, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Angela Merkel, Bakken Formation, BBC News, BC Hydro, Bloomberg L.P., Borehole, British Columbia, British Geological Survey, BTX (chemistry), Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Cardium Formation, CBC.ca, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Chevron Corporation, Christian Democratic Union of Germany, Congress for the Republic, Constitutional Council (France), Cooper Basin, Directional drilling, Duvernay Formation, Earthquake, Elsevier, Endangered Wildlife Trust, Energy Information Administration, Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing, Environmental impact of the oil shale industry, Environmental impact of the petroleum industry, Executive Council of British Columbia, ExxonMobil, ExxonMobil Electrofrac, Federal Ministry for Economics and Labour (Germany), Fossil fuel, Frack Off, Free Democratic Party (Germany), George Osborne, Global warming, Grand coalition (Germany), Greenpeace, Horn River Formation, Hydraulic fracturing, Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom, Jonathan Deal, Karoo, List of countries by recoverable shale gas, ..., List of Facebook features, Moncef Marzouki, Montney Formation, Moratorium (law), Mother Jones (magazine), New Brunswick, New Zealand, Non-governmental organization, Nova Scotia, Opposition (politics), Petroleum industry in Canada, Politiken, Precautionary principle, Pungești, Quebec, Radio Télévision Suisse, Reservoir, Rotliegend, Safe Drinking Water Act, Saskatchewan, Shale gas, Shale gas by country, South Africa, Spirit River Formation, Talisman Energy, The Guardian, Total S.A., United Kingdom, Viking Formation, Wetland, Williston Lake, Wintershall. Expand index (32 more) »

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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African National Congress

The African National Congress (ANC) is the Republic of South Africa's governing political party.

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Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.

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Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

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AllAfrica.com

AllAfrica.com is a website that aggregates news produced primarily on the African continent about all areas of African life, politics, issues and culture.

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American Association of Petroleum Geologists

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) is one of the world's largest professional geological societies with more than 35,000 members as of 2017.

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Angela Merkel

Angela Dorothea Merkel (Kasner, born 17 July 1954) is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005 and leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 2000.

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Bakken Formation

The Bakken Formation is a rock unit from the Late Devonian to Early Mississippian age occupying about of the subsurface of the Williston Basin, underlying parts of Montana, North Dakota, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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BC Hydro

The BC Hydro and Power Authority is a Canadian electric utility in the province of British Columbia, generally known simply as BC Hydro.

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Bloomberg L.P.

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Borehole

A borehole is a narrow shaft bored in the ground, either vertically or horizontally.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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British Geological Survey

The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly-funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research.

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BTX (chemistry)

In the petroleum refining and petrochemical industries, the initialism BTX refers to mixtures of benzene, toluene, and the three xylene isomers, all of which are aromatic hydrocarbons.

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent and non-partisan think tank policy research institute in Canada.

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Cardium Formation

The Cardium Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Late Cretaceous age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin.

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CBC.ca

CBC.ca is the English-language online service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of Her Majesty's Exchequer, commonly known as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or simply the Chancellor, is a senior official within the Government of the United Kingdom and head of Her Majesty's Treasury.

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Chevron Corporation

Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation.

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Christian Democratic Union of Germany

The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands, CDU) is a Christian democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Germany.

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Congress for the Republic

The Congress for the Republic (المؤتمر من أجل الجمهورية,; Congrès pour la République), also referred to as El Mottamar or by its French acronym CPR, is a centre-left secular political party in Tunisia.

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Constitutional Council (France)

The Constitutional Council (Conseil constitutionnel) is the highest constitutional authority in France.

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Cooper Basin

The Cooper Basin is a Permian-Triassic sedimentary geological basin in Australia.

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Directional drilling

Directional drilling (or slant drilling) is the practice of drilling non-vertical wells.

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Duvernay Formation

The Duvernay Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Frasnian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

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Earthquake

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Elsevier

Elsevier is an information and analytics company and one of the world's major providers of scientific, technical, and medical information.

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Endangered Wildlife Trust

The Endangered Wildlife Trust is a South African environmental organisation for the conservation of threatened species and ecosystems in southern Africa.

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Energy Information Administration

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.

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Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing

Hydraulic fracturing has the potential to cause fugitive methane emissions, air pollution, water contamination, and noise pollution.

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Environmental impact of the oil shale industry

Environmental impact of the oil shale industry includes the consideration of issues such as land use, waste management, and water and air pollution caused by the extraction and processing of oil shale.

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Environmental impact of the petroleum industry

Petroleum is one of the main sources of energy in the World.

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Executive Council of British Columbia

The Executive Council of British Columbia (informally and more commonly, the Cabinet of British Columbia) is the cabinet of that Canadian province.

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ExxonMobil

Exxon Mobil Corporation, doing business as ExxonMobil, is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas.

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ExxonMobil Electrofrac

ExxonMobil Electrofrac is an in situ shale oil extraction technology proposed by ExxonMobil for converting kerogen in oil shale to shale oil.

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Federal Ministry for Economics and Labour (Germany)

The Federal Ministry for Economics and Labour (German: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit) was a Ministry of German Federal Government between 2002 and 2005.

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Fossil fuel

A fossil fuel is a fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, containing energy originating in ancient photosynthesis.

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Frack Off

Frack Off is a grassroots direct action campaign aimed at stopping the extraction of unconventional resources in the UK, specifically concentrating on unconventional gas extraction.

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Free Democratic Party (Germany)

The Free Democratic Party (Freie Demokratische Partei, FDP) is a liberal and classical liberal political party in Germany.

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George Osborne

George Gideon Oliver Osborne (born 23 May 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician, who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from June 2001 until he stood down on 3 May 2017.

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Global warming

Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.

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Grand coalition (Germany)

In modern Germany with its parliamentary system of government on federal and on state level, grand coalition (Große Koalition) describes a governing coalition of the two biggest parties in one parliament.

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Greenpeace

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 39 countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Horn River Formation

The Horn River Formation (also Horn River Shale) is a stratigraphic unit of Devonian (early Givetian to late Frasnian) age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

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Hydraulic fracturing

Hydraulic fracturing (also fracking, fraccing, frac'ing, hydrofracturing or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid.

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Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom

Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom started in the late 1970s with fracturing of the conventional oil and gas fields of the North Sea.

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Jonathan Deal

Jonathan Deal is a South African environmentalist.

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Karoo

The Karoo (from a Khoikhoi word, possibly garo "desert") is a semidesert natural region of South Africa.

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List of countries by recoverable shale gas

This is a list of countries by recoverable shale gas based on data collected by the Energy Information Administration agency of the United States Department of Energy.

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List of Facebook features

Facebook is a social network service website launched on February 4, 2004.

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Moncef Marzouki

Mohamed Moncef Marzouki (محمد المنصف المرزوقي; Muhammad al-Munṣif al-Marzūqī, born 7 July 1945) is a Tunisian politician who was President of Tunisia from 2011 to 2014.

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Montney Formation

The Montney Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Lower Triassic age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in British Columbia and Alberta.

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Moratorium (law)

A moratorium is a delay or suspension of an activity or a law.

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Mother Jones (magazine)

Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is a progressive American magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative reporting on topics including politics, the environment, human rights, and culture.

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New Brunswick

New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick; Canadian French pronunciation) is one of three Maritime provinces on the east coast of Canada.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Non-governmental organization

Non-governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives.

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia (Latin for "New Scotland"; Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh) is one of Canada's three maritime provinces, and one of the four provinces that form Atlantic Canada.

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Opposition (politics)

The political party that has the majority is called ruling party and all other parties or their members are called the Opposition.

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Petroleum industry in Canada

Petroleum production in Canada is a major industry which is important to the economy of North America.

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Politiken

Politiken is a leading Danish daily broadsheet newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Precautionary principle

The precautionary principle (or precautionary approach) generally defines actions on issues considered to be uncertain, for instance applied in assessing risk management.

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Pungești

Pungești is a commune in Vaslui County, Romania.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Radio Télévision Suisse

The Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) is a Swiss public broadcasting organisation, part of SRG SSR.

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Reservoir

A reservoir (from French réservoir – a "tank") is a storage space for fluids.

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Rotliegend

The Rotliegend, Rotliegend Group or Rotliegendes (the underlying red) is a lithostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) of latest Carboniferous to Guadalupian (middle Permian) age that is found in the subsurface of large areas in western and central Europe.

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Safe Drinking Water Act

The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) is the principal federal law in the United States intended to ensure safe drinking water for the public.

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Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie and boreal province in western Canada, the only province without natural borders.

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Shale gas

Shale gas is natural gas that is found trapped within shale formations.

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Shale gas by country

Shale gas is natural gas produced from shale, a type of sedimentary rock.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Spirit River Formation

The Spirit River Formation is a stratigraphical unit of middle Albian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

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Talisman Energy

Talisman Energy Inc. was a Canadian multinational oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Total S.A.

Total S.A. is a French multinational integrated oil and gas company and one of the seven "Supermajor" oil companies in the world.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Viking Formation

The Viking Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

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Wetland

A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.

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Williston Lake

Williston Lake is a reservoir created by the W. A. C. Bennett Dam and is located in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Wintershall

Wintershall Holding GmbH, based in Kassel, is Germany's largest crude oil and natural gas producer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing_by_country

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