A critical review of the risks to water resources from unconventional shale gas development and hydraulic fracturing in the United States.

By A. Vengosh, R. B. Jackson, N. Warner, T. Darrah, A. Kondash. Environmental Science and Technology, 2014

1,447 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Mechanical Engineering

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In Environmental Engineering

1. Julian D. Olden
2. Sheila M. Olmstead
3. A. Vengosh
4. S. J. Ormerod
5. Sophie Bishop

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Julian D. Olden
2. Pieter T. J. Johnson
3. Sheila M. Olmstead
4. D. Dudgeon
5. S. Cooke
6. E. Eliason
7. A. Vengosh
8. S. J. Ormerod

Citations in the corpus

• The Environmental Costs and Benefits of Fracking (2014, background): “These naturally occurring brines are often saline to hypersaline (35,000 to 200,000 mg/L TDS) (37) and contain potentially toxic levels of elements such as barium, arsenic, and radioactive radium (37, 94, 95).”
• The Economics of Shale Gas Development (2015, background): “The potential for the movement of fracking fluids from deep shale formations to overlying aquifers through natural or induced fractures is actually quite low (Vengosh et al. 2014).”
• Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity (2018, background): “Other anthropogenic drivers of freshwater salinisation include: disposal or accidental spillage (Vengosh et al. , 2014); strip mining of oil sands which exposes marine sediments and shallow saline aquifers (Gibson et al. , 2013); and the expanding use of salt to de-ice impervious surfaces (Findlay…”