ELI/ALI CLE: Hydraulic Fracturing Science Update and Frontiers

When
November 29, 2012 11:27 am — 11:27 am
Where
Teleconference/Audio Webcast

Co-sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute and ALI CLE

This panel reviewed the leading edge of scientific investigations into and technological innovations for shale drilling, including:

  • Update on EPA’s study on groundwater impacts of hydraulic fracturing
  • Results of EPA’s recent field data from Pavillion, Wyoming and Dimock, Pennsylvania
  • Status of "no-water" and other fracturing and extraction technologies
  • Status of flowback and produced water treatment and disposal
  • Status of Green Completions, methane capture, and air quality
  • Science around seismic risks

Faculty:
L Brun Hilbert, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., Principal Engineer, Exponent (moderator)
R. Timothy McCrum, Crowell & Moring LLP
Briana Mordick, Staff Scientist, NRDC
John D. Schell, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Toxicology & Mechanistic Biology, Exponent

To purchase access to the recording and any materials made available at this session, please go HERE.

To view information on the entire 5-part special series on "Environmental Impacts of Shale Development and Hydraulic Fracturing: Key Legal Issues and Future Directions," please go HERE.