Environment
04.24.15

Fracking May be Needed in China to Wean it Off Coal

from chinadialogue

Fracking of China’s huge shale gas reserves will only have a modest impact on the environment if anti-pollution controls—many of them new—are enforced rigorously, says a new report from the U.K.-based...

Can Fracking Green China’s Growth?

Overseas Development Institute

This paper analyses the best available technical, scientific, and engineering literature on the risks and opportunities posed by shale gas, and also what policy environment could maximise the opportunity and minimise the risk. It also analyses...

China’s Elusive Shale Gas Boom

Paulson Institute

China’s natural gas market is expected to see robust growth over the next decade. This is a function of several factors. First, as part of the country’s effort to effect an energy transition to cleaner fuels, natural gas is viewed as a viable...

Caixin Media
09.04.13

China’s Shale Gas Development Goals Just Pipe Dreams

China wants to reap the benefits of a shale gas revolution similar to the one in the United States, but there are many obstacles to this happening, experts say.

In the first half of 2013, fifty-six shale gas wells were in the exploratory...