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Southeastern Section - 63rd Annual Meeting (10–11 April 2014)

Paper No. 2
Presentation Time: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM

A MICRO-CULTURAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE INTRODUCTION OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN THE MARCELLUS SHALE WITHIN THE DAN RIVER BASIN, NORTH CAROLINA, U.S.A


ROGERS, Tess Savannah, Science and Technology, Radford University, 801 East Main Street, RU STATION BOX 6690, Radford, VA 24142 and SETHI, Parvinder, Department of Geology, Radford Univ, Box - 6939, Radford, VA 24142-6939, trogers3@radford.edu

The rapidly expanding industry of hydraulic fracturing has begun to show interest in developing relatively small deposits of Marcellus Shale in rural areas along the eastern piedmont, such as the Dan River Basin in North Carolina. This study presents the oft-omitted, socio-economic and micro-cultural effects of introducing fracking into the Dan River Basin. Geological evaluation, combined with economic overview and a survey of local opinion, constitute the study’s findings.
The prominent focus is aimed at the controversy of whether the benefits of fracking such proportionally-smaller deposits outweigh the probable and location-specific negatives that accompany the introduction of hydraulic fracturing to the Dan River Basin. Location-specific findings compared to larger scale and more established operations direct the ultimate results.
Ideally these results will become a comparable foundation of quality research, through which areas similar in geology and demographics to the Dan River Basin can make informed decisions on the admittance of hydraulic fracturkng.

Session No. 46--Booth# 46

T11. Hydrocarbon Recovery using Fracking Technologies (Posters)
Friday, 11 April 2014: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Latham A/B/C (Inn and Conference Center at Virginia Tech)
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 46, No. 3, p.100
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