{"id":2644,"date":"2014-08-02T11:34:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2014-08-05T11:26:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:26:57","slug":"scientists-propose-roadmap-to-determine-the-impact-of-fracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/scientists-propose-roadmap-to-determine-the-impact-of-fracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists propose \u2018roadmap\u2019 to determine the impact of fracking<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An international review highlights the knowledge gaps related to the ecological consequences of shale gas development, and sets priorities for future research. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors point out that shale-drilling operations have increased by more than 700 per cent in the United States since 2007 and that it has occurred mostly in areas of biological diversity, yet there is a lack of data the biological impacts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In particular, the authors call for more research on what they term \u2018probabilistic threats\u201d which include the risks and consequences of contaminant release, spills, or underground migration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">original research paper<\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 1, 2014<\/strong>, is available upon request.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Viorel Popescu, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maureen Ryan, University of Washington, USA<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Carol Thorbes, Simon Fraser University,\u00a0British Columbia<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Marianne Meadahl, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international review highlights the knowledge gaps related to the ecological consequences of shale gas development, and sets priorities for future research. The authors point out that shale-drilling operations have increased by more than 700 per cent in the United States since 2007 and that it has occurred mostly in areas of biological diversity, yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,125,31,1445,644,215,2073,645],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-british-columbia","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-fracking","tag-oil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-GE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}