Review of shale gas social science in the United Kingdom, 2013–2018

Evensen, Darrick

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2018.09.005

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“…Alongside the mobilization of resources, enabling access to policy makers and the media, and the exploitation of political opportunities, such as regulatory failures or elections, an important skill of movements is the use of “compelling framing” (Piggot, , p. 942). The resonance of frames and the perceived effectiveness of narrative strategies have become an important focus for the literature on contests between pro‐ and anti‐fracking groups (Bomberg, ; Evensen, ; Neville et al, ). While these studies reveal numerous tailored framing strategies, they share a concern with thematic analysis of frames and counter frames, examining which frames are over‐ or underrepresented, and which frames will be most resonant with broader audiences.…”

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Shaping the Scope of Conflict in Scotland’s Fracking Debate: Conflict Management and the Narrative Policy Framework

Stephan

2020

Review of Policy Research

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This study applies a narrative lens to policy actors' discursive strategies in the Scottish debate over fracking. Based on a sample of 226 newspaper articles (2011-2017) and drawing on key elements of the narrative policy framework (NPF), the research examines how policy coalitions have characterized their supporters, their opponents, and the main regulator (Scottish government). It also explores how actors have sought to expand or contain the scope of conflict to favor their policy objectives. Empirically, only the government strives for conflict containment, whereas both pro-and anti-fracking groups prioritize conflict expansion through characterization contests and the diffusion and concentration of the costs/risks and benefits of fracking. In theoretical terms, the study proposes that Sarah Pralle's conflict management model, which emphasizes symmetrical strategies of conflict expansion by both coalitions, is a potential tool to revise extant NPF expectations about the different narrative strategies of winning and losing coalitions. Moreover, the fact that policy actors mostly employ negatively rather than positively framed characters in their narratives may be a valid expectation for similar policy conflicts, particularly under conditions of regulatory uncertainty. Scotland's Fracking Debate 65Además, el hecho de que los actores políticos empleen principalmente personajes enmarcados negativamente en lugar de enmarcados positivamente puede ser una expectativa válida para conflictos políticos similares, particularmente en condiciones de incertidumbre regulatoria. PALABRAS CLAVE: marco de política narrativa, alcance del conflicto, manejo de conflictos, fracking gas de esquisto, Escocia

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Shaping the Scope of Conflict in Scotland’s Fracking Debate: Conflict Management and the Narrative Policy Framework

Stephan

2020

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“…Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques for so-called unconventional hydrocarbon sources from shales, coal bed and tight sands, are a matter of growing social scientific concern (Evensen, 2018). Recent advancements in drilling technology and slickwater hydraulic fracturing of porous rocks (including shales) have allowed the profitable extraction of oil and gas from previously untapped sources (Palisch et al, 2010).…”

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Fracking and metaphor: Analysing newspaper discourse in the USA, Australia and the United Kingdom

Cotton

Barkemeyer

Renzi

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Ecological Economics

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We apply a mixed-method design centred on the deployment of metaphors to explore the role that language plays in the structuring of the public discourses of unconventional hydrocarbon development (UHD) across three major developed economies. We analyse UHD-related metaphorical devices deployed in broadsheet newspapers in Australia, the UK and the USA between January 2006 and May 2018. We develop an innovative Type Hierarchy Approach to metaphors by mapping through directed graph hierarchies. These allow concept-mapping analysis in terms of supertypes and subtypes, i.e. concepts ordered in terms of generality and inclusion as in Òrapid expansionÓ-> ÒexplosionÓ. We find two broad discourses, each containing metaphorical constructions: economic gain across temporal horizons (incorporating boom, bonanza, revolution and death metaphors); and risk tolerance and decision-making (incorporating gamble and insanity metaphors). At the level of individual metaphors, deployment trends and patterns can be mapped along country borders rather than for example political alignment. Boom and bonanza appear most widespread in the USA, whereas UHD as a revolution is more closely associated with UK newspapers. Over time, UHD-related metaphor use decreases in all three countries, potentially reflecting an increasing public acceptance of UHD and moving shale gas from unconventional to conventional hydrocarbon development.

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“…In 2011, drilling of an early exploration well led to induced seismicity which was although considered to be minor in nature but halted the operations and urged UK government to impose one-year moratorium [8]. Although this short-term moratorium was lifted in 2012, the progress in shale gas development remained at snail's pace.…”

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“…As mentioned by Bradshaw and Waite [9] that in 2015, Cuadrilla (license holder company) appealed the decisions by Lancashire County Council of refusing initial planning submissions by company, leading to a public enquiry in 2016. According to Evensen [8], idea of shale gas development primarily faced political challenges over the past seven years where it remained a subject of intense debates and political speeches by advocates and opponents. Secondly, societal challenges hugely contributed to detaining shale gas development where the plans of 'fracking' by government and Cuadrilla were confronted by opposition from activists.…”

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“…Secondly, societal challenges hugely contributed to detaining shale gas development where the plans of 'fracking' by government and Cuadrilla were confronted by opposition from activists. The activists attacked the idea by continuous protests and obstructed the on-going activities in every possible manner which also involved actions such that blocking the entrance of workers and vehicles to site [6] and chaining themselves to equipment [8]. Therefore, despite of UK government's utmost desire to initiate commercial drilling, mainly political and societal challenges have been restricting UK's shale gas industry to evolve from its infancy.…”

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Economic Feasibility Analysis of Shale Gas Extraction from UK’s Carboniferous Bowland-Hodder Shale Unit

Ahmed

Gomari

2018

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For many years, shale gas exploitation has been generating contradictory views in the UK and remains subject of rising debates throughout these years. Favorably backed by the government, looking upon it as potential mechanism for gas import independency and competitiveness in global gas industry while strongly opposed by stakeholders (mainly public), idea of shale gas exploitation remains disputed with no substantial progress in past years. And this irresolution is worsened by obscurity of estimates for potential reserves and conflicting assessments on potential impact of shale gas. Yet, in case shale industry is signaled to search and extract resources, there remains another scrutiny stage that shale industry will be subjected to i.e., its extraction must be economically feasible as extracting unconventional resources is financially expensive and riskier than conventional. Hence, this study aims at analyzing the economics of UK's most prolific Bowland shale play development by a financial model that discovers gas prices range required to earn capital cost on investment in Bowland shale play and is tested on three development plans where it determines that based on given set of hypothesis and past decade's average gas price of $6.52/Mcf, none of the development plans hold enough probability of adding value, however, hybrid plan formulated by combination of consistent drilling and refracturing proves as economically sustainable with a RGP mean $7.21/Mcf, significantly lower than $9.76/Mcf mean for 'drilling only' plan. It is found that required gas price is most sensitive to initial production rate and drilling costs where ±10% variation offsets RGP by ≈±8% and ±7%.

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Review of shale gas social science in the United Kingdom, 2013–2018

Cited by 21 publications

References 59 publications

Shaping the Scope of Conflict in Scotland’s Fracking Debate: Conflict Management and the Narrative Policy Framework

Shaping the Scope of Conflict in Scotland’s Fracking Debate: Conflict Management and the Narrative Policy Framework

Fracking and metaphor: Analysing newspaper discourse in the USA, Australia and the United Kingdom

Economic Feasibility Analysis of Shale Gas Extraction from UK’s Carboniferous Bowland-Hodder Shale Unit

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