Fracking Is Flopping Overseas

Fracking Is Flopping Overseas by Matthew Brown, May 03, 2012, Bloomberg Businessweek
“China will not have a shale gas revolution on the scale seen in the United States, and it is highly unlikely that China will achieve its target” by 2020, Fan Gao, a research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, wrote in a report in March. Hurdles include a population density five times that of the U.S., water availability of about one-fifth…. As China’s population becomes more aware of health and safety issues, environmental issues could also be a “showstopper,” she said.