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Shale Gas: The Technological Gamble That Should Not Have Been Taken by Anthony Ingraffea
Published on Apr 4, 2018 by Spring Creek Project.
In this lecture “Shale Gas: The Technological Gamble That Should Not Have Been Taken,” Anthony Ingraffea poses that the fracking boom has placed the world’s population in grave risk for the supposed benefit of a few. Just because one can do something does not mean that one should, especially if the possible action is clearly a gamble. The wisdom of experience, and concern for unpredictable effects broader than the immediate outcome, should guide a decision to use a new-found capability. Early this century, gas and oil operators, regulators, and legislators collectively violated this precept across most of North America. Having discovered a way to extract gas and oil from a previously undevelopable source, shale, they forged ahead at unprecedented scale. This unwise boom led to three compounding results: the prolongation of the fossil fuel era for decades; the depression of the deployment of clean renewable energy; and the exacerbation of climate change. This lecture focuses on these three results of a risk that should never have been taken, incorporating data on natural gas production, the slowing of renewable energy development, and faster-than-predicted global warming.
This talk is a part of the Bedrock Lectures on Human Rights and Climate Change presented by the Spring Creek Project. Dr. Anthony Ingraffea is the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Cornell University. For his research achievements in hydraulic fracturing, he won the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics “Significant Paper Award,” and twice won the National Research Council Award for research in rock mechanics. In 2011, TIME Magazine named him one of its “People Who Mattered,” and he became the first president of Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PGfIjCG-zB4
In this lecture “Shale Gas: The Technological Gamble That Should Not Have Been Taken,” Anthony Ingraffea poses that the fracking boom has placed the world’s population in grave risk for the supposed benefit of a few. Just because one can do something does not mean that one should, especially if the possible action is clearly a gamble. The wisdom of experience, and concern for unpredictable effects broader than the immediate outcome, should guide a decision to use a new-found capability. Early this century, gas and oil operators, regulators, and legislators collectively violated this precept across most of North America. Having discovered a way to extract gas and oil from a previously undevelopable source, shale, they forged ahead at unprecedented scale. This unwise boom led to three compounding results: the prolongation of the fossil fuel era for decades; the depression of the deployment of clean renewable energy; and the exacerbation of climate change. This lecture focuses on these three results of a risk that should never have been taken, incorporating data on natural gas production, the slowing of renewable energy development, and faster-than-predicted global warming.
This talk is a part of the Bedrock Lectures on Human Rights and Climate Change presented by the Spring Creek Project. Dr. Anthony Ingraffea is the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Cornell University. For his research achievements in hydraulic fracturing, he won the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics “Significant Paper Award,” and twice won the National Research Council Award for research in rock mechanics. In 2011, TIME Magazine named him one of its “People Who Mattered,” and he became the first president of Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PGfIjCG-zB4