Environmental issues associated with coal seam gas recovery: Managing the fracking boom

Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 425-428

  Batley, Graeme E ^a   Kookana, Rai S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; RISK FACTOR; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84870220964     PISSN: 14482517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EN12136     Document Type: Article

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