{"id":38,"date":"2018-02-09T16:10:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/environmental-law-review\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:00","slug":"a-lesson-from-the-shale-revolution-in-the-united-states-canada-and-china","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/environmental-law-review\/in-print\/volume-29-issue-4-summer-2017\/a-lesson-from-the-shale-revolution-in-the-united-states-canada-and-china\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson from the Shale Revolution in the United States, Canada, and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Article surveys policy and regulatory responses taken by the governments\u00a0of the United States, Canada, and China in response to the advent of fracking. It\u00a0also adopts a comparative perspective to develop a list of considerations that the\u00a0governments of countries already engaged, or thinking about engaging in, shale\u00a0gas production could use to guide their respective legal frameworks in the\u00a0context of shale gas development. Absent a dramatic overturn of economic,\u00a0environmental, or energy policies in those countries, it would be fair to state that\u00a0the United States, Canada, and China will continue to be the three largest shale\u00a0gas producers in the world. Depending on their policy priorities, political\u00a0environment, and the maturity of their shale gas developments, the regulatory\u00a0reactions of the three countries have varied. Given the similar democratic\u00a0governmental structures and political environments of the United States and\u00a0Canada, this Article first discusses the current regulatory systems of the two\u00a0countries together and China\u2019s regulatory system separately.<sup>1<\/sup> Next, this Article\u00a0compares the three systems and identifies common issues that the three countries\u00a0face. The similarities in the countries\u2019 government structures, jurisdictional\u00a0conflicts, multidirectional mandates and policies, and lack of regulations that are\u00a0targeted for shale gas production, provide information from which countries can\u00a0use to develop their legal frameworks for shale gas extraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Article surveys policy and regulatory responses taken by the governments\u00a0of the United States, Canada, and China in response to the advent of fracking. It\u00a0also adopts a comparative perspective to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":62,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/environmental-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/environmental-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/environmental-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/environmental-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/environmental-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/environmental-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/environmental-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/1764"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/environmental-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/environmental-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}