Session: Similar Information, Different Results: Fracking from State to State (2015 GSA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, USA (1-4 November 2015))

Session No. 235

Tuesday, 3 November 2015: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Room 327/328/329 (Baltimore Convention Center)

P4. Similar Information, Different Results: Fracking from State to State

GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Energy Geology Division; GSA Geoinformatics Division

R. Laurence Davis and Christopher P. Carlson, Conveners

Paper #

Start Time

1:30 PM

Introductory Remarks

235-1

1:40 PM

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING AND REGULATIONS IN TEXAS

NICOT, Jean-Philippe, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 10100 Burnet Rd, Bldg 130, Austin, TX 78758-4445, SCANLON, Bridget R., Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, 10100 Burnet Rd., Austin, TX 78758-4445, MULLICAN III, William F., Mullican and Associates, Pflugerville, TX 78660 and YOUNG, Michael, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, University Station, Box X, Austin, TX 78712, JP.Nicot@beg.utexas.edu

235-2

1:55 PM

ENERGY PRODUCTION AND INDUCED SEISMICITY IN THE MIDCONTINENT: THE KANSAS RESPONSE

BUCHANAN, Rex C., Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, 1930 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047-3724, rex@kgs.ku.edu

235-3

2:10 PM

THE ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY'S INVOLVEMENT WITH ILLINOIS'S HYDRAULIC FRACTURING LEGISLATION

BAUER, Robert, Illinois State Geological Survey, University of Illinois, 615 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL 61820, rabauer@illinois.edu

235-4

2:25 PM

PENNSYLVANIA: AN INTERNATIONAL LEADER IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND SHALE GAS DEVELOPMENT

PERRY, Scott, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Rachel Carson State Office Building, 400 Market St, Harrisburg, PA 17011, scperry@pa.gov

235-5

2:40 PM

MARYLAND'S APPROACH TO HIGH VOLUME HYDRAULIC FRACTURING

KENNEY, Brigid E., 135 Rabbit Hollow Rd., Accident, MD 21520, kenney.brigid@verizon.net

2:55 PM

Break

3:10 PM

Discussion

235-6

3:30 PM

AN OVERVIEW OF THE RISKS TO WATER RESOURCES FROM HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN THE UNITED SATES

VENGOSH, Avner, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, vengosh@duke.edu