Environmental Impacts of Shale Gas in the UK: Current Situation and Future Scenarios

Energy Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1012-1026

  Cooper, Jasmin ^a   Stamford, Laurence ^a   Azapagic, Adisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Electricity; Environmental impacts; Life cycle assessment; Shale gas

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRICITY; GASES; GLOBAL WARMING; LIFE CYCLE; SHALE; SHALE GAS;

CURRENT SITUATION; DOMESTIC PRODUCTION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE-CYCLE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MEDIUM TERM; RENEWABLES;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 84991377716     PISSN: 21944288     EISSN: 21944296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ente.201402097     Document Type: Article

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