Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

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Forthcoming

Abstract

Politicians and regulators all over the world are debating the merits and demerits of horizontal drilling and fracturing of shale formations to produce natural gas (fracking) and the many legal issues that are raised by fracking. Professor Pierce provides context for those debates by describing the economic, environmental, and geopolitical advantages of fracking.

GW Paper Series

GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-128, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2012-128

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