Is Shale Gas Good for Climate Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9685542 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel P Schrag (0000-0003-2216-827X, State Committee on Science and Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 141 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 72-80 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_00147 |
| OpenAlex | W2063530207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 3 |
Shale gas is a new energy resource that has shifted the dominant paradigm on U.S. hydrocarbon resources. Some have argued that shale gas will play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by displacing coal used for electricity, serving as a moderate-carbon “bridge fuel.” Others have questioned whether methane emissions from shale gas extraction lead to higher greenhouse gas emissions overall. I argue that the main impact of shale gas on climate change is neither the reduced emissions from fuel substitution nor the greenhouse gas footprint of natural gas itself, but rather the competition between abundant, low-cost gas and low-carbon technologies, including renewables and carbon capture and storage. This might be remedied if the gas industry joins forces with environmental groups, providing a counterbalance to the coal lobby, and ultimately eliminating the conventional use of coal in the United States
Carbon Footprint · Carbon-neutral fuel · Climate change · Climate change mitigation · Coal · Economics · Fossil fuel · Greenhouse gas · Hydrogen · Low-carbon economy · Methane · Natural gas · Natural resource economics · Oil shale · Renewable energy · Shale Gas · Syngas · Unconventional oil · Waste management · Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics · Chemistry · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Engineering · Environmental Science · Geology
Climate Imagineering
Resilient but not sustainable? Public perceptions of shale gas development via hydraulic fracturing
The effect of natural gas supply on US renewable energy and CO 2 emissions
A consistent conceptual framework for applying climate metrics in technology life cycle assessment
Delaying decarbonization
The downstream air pollution impacts of the transition from coal to natural gas in the United States
US presidential candidates’ views on unconventional gas and oil
The social–economic impact of shale gas extraction
Energy in the Context of Sustainability
| Citations per year | 0.69 |
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| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |