April 2013, Interview
August 2012, Video (4:27)
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences is partner of the Science Year 2012 “Project Earth: Our Future”.
31.01.2014
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Dear Reader,The SHIP team wishes all our readers a Happy New Year 2014! Today we would like to inform you about the latest news on SHIP. In the category "The Debate", SHIP expert Prof. Mike Stephenson of the British Geological Survey[...]read more
28.01.2014
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The 2013 energy study – Reserves, Resources and the Availability of Energy Raw Materials, provides raw material economic advice to the Federal Ministry of economy and energy (BMWi) and for the German economy. Excerpt from the BGR 2013 energy study[...]read more
27.01.2014
Climate Impact
Dr. Thorsten Warneke discusses the following scientific paper by Miller et al. (2013) A recent paper by Miller et al. (2013), published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, states that the emission of methane in the United States[...]read more
27.01.2014
Legislation, Generic
Building on existing EU legislation and complementing it where necessary, the Recommendation invites Member States in particular to: Plan ahead of developments and evaluate possible cumulative effects before granting licences;Carefully assess[...]read more
24.01.2014
Generic, Operations
The Center for Sustainable Shale Development (CSSD), a collaborative between environmental organizations and energy companies to encourage prudent and responsible development of shale gas resources in the Appalachian region, announced its[...]read more
21.01.2014
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The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), with the support of the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), has now published the pros and cons of shale gas development in an argument map for the languages German and[...]read more
20.01.2014
Operations, Generic
In December, 2013 the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) published a regulation and best practice roadmap for operators of onshore oil and gas (shale gas) exploration in the UK. “The content is primarily for unconventional oil and gas[...]read more
20.01.2014
Operations, Generic
The International Risk Governance Council* (IRGC) published guidelines for unconventional gas development. “In this report, the IRGC examines the risks and benefits of UGD [unconventional gas development] and offers some risk governance[...]read more
07.01.2014
Water Protection
Authors: Torsten Lange1, Alexander Kissinger2, Martin Sauter1, Rainer Helmig2, Michael Heitfeld3 1Georg-August-Universität Göttingen2Universität Stuttgart3Ingenieurbüro Heitfeld - Schetelig, Aachen This text relies on the articles “Hydraulic[...]read more
20.12.2013
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Dear Reader,Today we would like to inform you about the latest news on SHIP. A new expert article from Dr. Bernd Wiese, GFZ Potsdam is available on SHIP, which grapples with the rise of fracking fluids. A short summary of “Constraints on Upward[...]read more
18.12.2013
Water Protection
Author: Prof. Dr. Michael Kühn Groundwater - raw material and resource Groundwater is an important part of the water cycle that is controlled and affected by numerous processes. The underground groundwater circulation systems are of a complexity[...]read more
17.12.2013
Legislation, Generic
“According to current environmentally relevant studies, there is enormous potential risk attached to the use of fracking technology for the unconventional extraction of natural gas – and especially shale gas. The consequences for humans, nature and[...]read more
17.12.2013
Generic, Water Protection
Prof. Dr. Michael Kühn is the Head of the Hydrogeology section at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. At the same time, he is Professor of Hydrogeology at the University of Potsdam. His research group focuses on the dynamic interactions[...]read more
12.12.2013
Water Protection
Author: Dr. Bernd Wiese This paper by Flewelling & Sharma analyzes some general geological settings and their implications for fluid migration. The analysis is based on plausibility considerations. A central consideration is that high vertical[...]read more
12.12.2013
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Dr. Bernd Wiese holds the position of Research Scientist at the Center for Geological Storage in the German Research Center for Geosciences in Potsdam. He is working on different tasks at the pilot site for CO2 storage in Ketzin, Germany. His fields[...]read more
15.11.2013
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Dear reader,Today, we would like to inform you about news on SHIP. SHIP has been reorganized and you can now find older articles under the category ‘Archive’ sorted by topic. Archive Carbon Footprint: The expert article about climate impact[...]read more
06.11.2013
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The report published on 31 October by Public Health England reviews the potential health impacts of shale gas extraction. This review of the scientific literature focusses on the potential impact of chemicals and radioactive material from all stages[...]read more
05.11.2013
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The Polish Geological Institute (PGI) and the Geological Surveys of Europe (EuroGeoSurveys) invite to the conference on shale gas on November 12, 2013, 9:00 a.m. in Warsaw. This conference will shed some new light on chances for the safe and[...]read more
24.10.2013
Climate Impact
Many studies have examined greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from shale gas production and their possible impact on climate. The methodologies and assumptions of these studies differ, and have resulted in various conclusions on the potential emissions.[...]read more
24.10.2013
Climate Impact
Correction of the conflict of interest statement About 3 weeks after publication of the article "Measurements of methane emissions at natural gas production sites in the United States" the authors corrected their conflict of interest[...]read more
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