ABSTRACT
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. The number of tight oil and shale gas wells continues to rise primarily in the US, but also worldwide. The US has vast reserves of oil and natural gas, which now are commercially reachable as a result of advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies. But as hydraulic frac
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I: Water Use and Wastewater Production in Shale Gas Development
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Part II: Potential Environmental Effects of Fracking Wastewater
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Part III: The Quest for Mitigation
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Part IV: Fracking Wastewater Regulations