The Analysis of China’s Water Environmental Protection in Exploiting Shale Gas

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10.2991/itms-15.2015.277How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Shale gas; Water environment; Protection

Abstract

In recent years, under pressures of the global energy crisis and climate change, shale gas(SG) was widely concerned as a relatively clean source of energy. One of the widely used technologies to exploit SG is hydraulic fracturing, which consumes a large amount of fresh water, pollutes water environment, and destroys ecological environment. China, which has the world's largest amount of SG, has begun to carry out researches and tests on SG exploitation by learning the technology and experience from developed countries. However, the imbalance between supply and demand of freshwater became the biggest constraint; water pollution situation and potential geological disaster risk put forward higher requirements for pollution prevention in exploiting SG. Water pollution could be effectively prevented by taking technological innovation, environmental supervision, environmental risks prevention and other measures in exploiting SG.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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