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It isn't yet clear whether French shale holds commercially viable natural-gas deposits - or whether nearby residents can be persuaded that the benefits outweigh shale's environmental risks.
French Report Backs Shale Gas, Oil Production Geraldine Amiel 2011
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Each of the thousands of wells drilled each year into the unconventional gas shale's underlying the Northeast, Gulf Coast states, the West, and Midwest requires three to six million gallons of water injected under high pressure to fracture the rock and enable gas to flow out of the rock.
J. Carl Ganter: An epic struggle between water and energy is unfolding across the nation -- Choke Point: U.S. J. Carl Ganter 2010
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Each of the thousands of wells drilled each year into the unconventional gas shale's underlying the Northeast, Gulf Coast states, the West, and Midwest requires three to six million gallons of water injected under high pressure to fracture the rock and enable gas to flow out of the rock.
J. Carl Ganter: An epic struggle between water and energy is unfolding across the nation -- Choke Point: U.S. J. Carl Ganter 2010
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Each of the thousands of wells drilled each year into the unconventional gas shale's underlying the Northeast, Gulf Coast states, the West, and Midwest requires three to six million gallons of water injected under high pressure to fracture the rock and enable gas to flow out of the rock.
J. Carl Ganter: An epic struggle between water and energy is unfolding across the nation -- Choke Point: U.S. J. Carl Ganter 2010
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Each of the thousands of wells drilled each year into the unconventional gas shale's underlying the Northeast, Gulf Coast states, the West, and Midwest requires three to six million gallons of water injected under high pressure to fracture the rock and enable gas to flow out of the rock.
J. Carl Ganter: An epic struggle between water and energy is unfolding across the nation -- Choke Point: U.S. J. Carl Ganter 2010
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Each of the thousands of wells drilled each year into the unconventional gas shale's underlying the Northeast, Gulf Coast states, the West, and Midwest requires three to six million gallons of water injected under high pressure to fracture the rock and enable gas to flow out of the rock.
J. Carl Ganter: An epic struggle between water and energy is unfolding across the nation -- Choke Point: U.S. J. Carl Ganter 2010
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Each of the thousands of wells drilled each year into the unconventional gas shale's underlying the Northeast, Gulf Coast states, the West, and Midwest requires three to six million gallons of water injected under high pressure to fracture the rock and enable gas to flow out of the rock.
J. Carl Ganter: An epic struggle between water and energy is unfolding across the nation -- Choke Point: U.S. J. Carl Ganter 2010
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Each of the thousands of wells drilled each year into the unconventional gas shale's underlying the Northeast, Gulf Coast states, the West, and Midwest requires three to six million gallons of water injected under high pressure to fracture the rock and enable gas to flow out of the rock.
J. Carl Ganter: An epic struggle between water and energy is unfolding across the nation -- Choke Point: U.S. J. Carl Ganter 2010
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They found no evidence of contamination from the chemicals used in fracking fluids or from the wastewater after the shale's been fractured.
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But tapping oil shale's potential requires heating rocks buried deep beneath the earth to hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit, a process that requires large amounts of energy and which environmentalists worry will damage pristine wilderness lands, contaminate or deplete scarce groundwater reserves and significantly increase greenhouse-gas emissions.
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