Shale gas

Shale gas

ENVIRONMENT
1. Air
  1. Fugitive emissions
    1. Climate change from methane
  2. Point source
    1. Flaring
    2. Onsite equioment
  3. Transport emissions
2. Land
  1. Mining waste
  2. Land take
3. Water
  1. Groundwater
  2. Surface water
  3. Abstraction
  4. Waste water
    1. Flowback fluid
    2. Produced water
4. Nuisance
  1. Light
  2. Noise
  3. Odour
  4. Traffic
  5. Dust
5. Seismicity
6. NORMS
7. Climate change from energy generation CO2
8. Transition fuel
9. Precautionary principle
  1. Knowledge and expertise
  2. Who is responsible for generating knowledge and who pays?
10. Biodiversity
11. Subsidence
12. Chemcials
13. Liability
14. Cumulative effects
ECONOMICS
1. National effects
  1. Taxation
  2. Balance of trade
  3. Feedstock
  4. Knowledge and capacity build
2. Local effects
  1. House prices
    1. Increase (competition)
    2. Decrease (less desirable
  2. Lost income from tourism and agriculture
  3. Employment
    1. Increased employment
    2. Lost opportunities
  4. Environmental Justice
3. "Northern power house"
SOCIAL EFFECTS
1. Health concerns
  1. US
  2. Physical effects
    1. Monitoring
      1. Evidence
      2. Governance
        Trust
  3. Psychological effects
    1. Risk perception
    2. The effect of media atention
      1. Gronnigen
2. Boom town
  1. Increased strain on social resources
  2. Changing demographics
3. Industrialisation of the country side
  1. Place
4. Combat fuel poverty
ENERGY SECURITY
1. Changing Energy markets
  1. Russia
    1. Eastern European influence
    2. Price security
      1. Nord stream
      2. Nabucco
      3. Sanctions
  2. OIl prices
    1. OPEC increased output
    2. US shale
  3. Reduced supply from the Netherlands
  4. Increasing demand from new markets
    1. China
      1. Shale gas development
    2. Asia
    3. Japan
  5. Demand and the global economy
  6. Increased LNG supply from US
  7. rapprochement with Iran
  8. Declining north sea reserves
2. Alternative to shale gas
  1. Renewables
  2. Increased availability of coal
  3. LNG
  4. Nuclear
    1. Weapons
    2. Fukishima
3. Energy Securitisation
4. Geopolitical influence
5. Short build times for gas generation
POLICY
1. Policy paradigms
  1. Sustainable development
  2. Traditional policy paradigms
    1. Dismantling of climate change commitments
    2. Business as usual
    3. Pollution control
    4. Economic growth
    5. Producer interests
  3. A case study in retrenchment?
2. Theories of policy change
  1. Policy networks
  2. Issue attention cycles
  3. Punctuated equilibrium
  4. Agenda setting
    1. Analogies with GM?
3. New instutionalism
4. Policy goals?
  1. National prestige
  2. A domestic shale gas industry?
  3. Improved energy security?
  4. Winning?
    1. Personal credibility
      1. Greenest government
        DC stepping down
      2. All out for shale
        George Osborne as next Conservative leader?
5. Theories of policy process
INDUSTRY CAPACITY
1. Practicalities
  1. Available workforce
    1. Training and capacity build
  2. Finance
  3. Geology
  4. Rig availability
  5. Regulatory regime
2. Political support
  1. Power
3. Alternative markets
4. Social licence to operate
5. Wellhead price
ACTORS
1. Government
  1. National Institutions
    1. DECC
      1. OGA
      2. OUGO
    2. Environment Agency
      1. DEFRA
        Treasury
        Farmers?
    3. HSE
    4. DCLG
    5. Cabinet office
  2. Local institutions
    1. Planning commitees
    2. Mineral planning authority
  3. Legitimacy
  4. Regulatory capacity
    1. Relationship with business
      1. Funding - Business is a paying customer
        Risk of regulatory capture
      2. Enforcement
        How do you regulate paying customers in an era of 30% budget cuts while avoiding regulatory capture?
      3. Collaborator - Business is a source of knowledge
        Information asymmetry
    2. Barriers
      1. Funding cuts
      2. Lack of expertise in some areas
      3. Public mistrust
        'Subversive stories'
      4. Brain drain to industry
      5. Institutional unease
      6. Credibility
  5. A fragmented policy community? Has moving environment to Defra and energy to DECC disrupted policy communities?
  6. Mistrust
2. Civil society
  1. NGOs
    1. FoE
    2. RSPB
    3. CPRE
  2. Single issue groups
    1. 'Frack free' groups
    2. Frack off
  3. Residents' groups
  4. Protest
    1. Participation
    2. Empowerment
      1. Network building
      2. 'The return of democracy'
      3. Learning
      4. Is shale gas protest a way to increase environmental consciousness and participation or an expression of NIMBYISM
      5. A cultural resource
    3. NIMBYISM
    4. Winning the battle but losing the war - a re changes to climate change policy being ignored in favour of shale gas protests?
    5. Collective action frames
      1. Not here, not anywhere
      2. North v south
    6. Urgent and feasible
3. Industry
  1. UKOOG
  2. Production companies
    1. Cuadrilla
      1. Private equity Riverstone/ Carlyle Global Energy and Power Fund I
    2. Third Energy
      1. Barclays
    3. iGAS
      1. Ineos
  3. Task force on shale gas
  4. Service companies
    1. Halliburton
    2. Consultancy firms
  5. Financing companies
4. Trust
5. The EU
  1. EU exit?
6. Expert bodies
  1. PHE
  2. BGS
  3. Royal society
7. Unions
8. new
INFORMATION
1. Internet
  1. Globalisation of protest
    1. Gasland
  2. Network building
  3. Other countries experience
    1. Not allways relevant
  4. Subversive stories and action frames
  5. Moblisation
2. Contagious mistrust
3. Risk perception
  1. Demographics
    1. Gender
    2. Education
    3. Political affiliation
  2. Easily perceived environmental effects
4. Fear
5. News as enertainment
6. Complexity
7. Has engagement become impossible?
8. Traditional media
9. FOI
  1. Secrecy
  2. Vexatious requests

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