Regulating innovation: European responses to shale gas development

McGowan, Francis

doi:10.1080/09644016.2012.740939

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“…There is some literature relating to policy aspects of shale gas, i.e. regulation (McGowan, 2014), discourse analysis about the UK hydraulic fracturing debate (Cotton et al, 2014;Williams et al, 2015), examining the debate in UK newspapers relating to hydraulic fracturing (Jaspal and Nerlich, 2014) and public perceptions relating risk perceptions and policy support in three UK regions (Whitmarsh et al, 2015). There is, to our knowledge, no literature about attitudes towards shale gas extraction using a comprehensive national UK survey.…”

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Exploring support for shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom

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The development of shale gas in the United Kingdom (UK) using hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as 'fracking', remains in its infancy. Yet understanding public attitudes for this fledgling industry is important for future policy considerations, decision-making and for industry stakeholders. This study uses data collected from the University of Nottingham UK nationwide online survey (n=3,823) conducted in September 2014, to consider ten hypothesises about the UK public's attitudes towards shale gas. From the survey data we can see that 43.11% of respondents support shale gas extraction in the UK. Furthermore, our results show that women, class DE respondents, non-Conservative party supporters, and respondents who positively associate shale gas with water contamination or earthquakes are less likely to support the extraction of shale gas in the UK. We also discuss potential policy implications for the UK government arising from these findings.

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Exploring support for shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom

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“…Moreover, there is significant political divergence in the socio-political acceptability of shale gas at the European Member State-level, alongside hesitancy within the European Commission, significant expressions of opposition within the European Parliament and divergent positions in the Council on the issue (McGowan 2012). At the Member Statelevel no consensus exists: France, Netherlands, Bulgaria and Germany have imposed de facto moratoria on shale gas developments, whereas Poland, the United Kingdom and Denmark have granted exploration licenses.…”

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Fair fracking? Ethics and environmental justice in United Kingdom shale gas policy and planning

Cotton

2016

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The exploitation of shale gas resources is a significant issue of environmental justice. Uneven distributions of risks and social impacts to local site communities must be balanced against the economic benefits to gas users and developers; and unequal decision-making powers must be negotiated between local and central government, communities and fracking site developers. These distributive and procedural elements are addressed in relation to UK policy, planning, regulatory and industry development. I adopt an explicitly normative framework of policy evaluation; addressing a research gap on the ethics of shale gas by operationalising Shrader-FrechetteÕs Principle of Prima Facie Political Equality (PPFPE). I conclude that UK fracking policy reveals inherent contradictions of environmental justice in relation to the Conservative GovernmentÕs localist and planning reform agendas. Early fracking policy protected communities from harm in the wake of seismic risk events, but these were quickly replaced with pro-industry economic stimulation and planning legislation that curtailed community empowerment in fracking decision-making, increased environmental risks to communities, transferred powers from local to central government, and created the conditions of distributive injustices in the management of community benefit provisions. I argue that only by Ôre-localisingÕ the scale of fracking governance can political equality be ensured and the distributive and procedural environmental injustices be ameliorated.

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“…Abdullah and Morley [21] used panel causality tests to analyze the causal effect of environmental taxes on economic growth, identifying some evidence of short-run causality. McGowan [22] examined the interplay between regulation and innovation by comparing the regulatory context that promoted the diffusion of shale gas techniques with the responses to its potential development across different countries. The results suggested that different economic systems had various responses.…”

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Environmental Regulation, Economic Network and Sustainable Growth of Urban Agglomerations in China

Chong

Cheng-lin

2016

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Abstract:In this paper, we examine the influence of environmental regulation on sustainable economic growth from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Our research is twofold. First, we apply a modified NEG (New Economic Geography) model to analyze how environmental regulation influences firms' location choices and cities' sustainable economic growth. Second, we test a spatial econometric model employing panel data of the three largest urban agglomerations in China from 2003 to 2013 to study the relationship between environmental regulation and sustainable economic growth as well as the spillover channels of economic activities. The results reveal a remarkable negative effect of environmental regulation on economic growth. In addition, we find no sufficient evidence to prove the existence of long-term effects of environmental regulation on economic growth in the three urban agglomerations. Furthermore, using different weight matrices to illustrate the different economic networks of the urban agglomeration, we validate the difference in spillover mechanisms across these three urban agglomerations. Specifically, the disparity in environmental regulation acts as a spillover channel for the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, while it is not significant for Jing-Jin-Ji.

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Regulating innovation: European responses to shale gas development

Cited by 39 publications

References 29 publications

Exploring support for shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom

Exploring support for shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom

Fair fracking? Ethics and environmental justice in United Kingdom shale gas policy and planning

Environmental Regulation, Economic Network and Sustainable Growth of Urban Agglomerations in China

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