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‘We're going all out for shale:’ explaining shale gas energy policy failure in the United Kingdom
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Bradshaw, Michael J., Devine-Wright, Patrick, Evensen, Darrick, King, Owen, Martin, Abigail, Ryder, Stacia, Short, Damien, Sovacool, Benjamin K., Stretesky, Paul, Szolucha, Anna and Williams, Laurence (2022) ‘We're going all out for shale:’ explaining shale gas energy policy failure in the United Kingdom. Energy Policy, 168 . 113132. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113132 ISSN 0301-4215.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113132
Abstract
In January 2014, then British Prime Minister David Cameron declared that his government was ‘Going all out for Shale.’ In November 2019, during an election campaign, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Government imposed a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing bringing to a halt industry hopes of developing shale gas in the UK. This paper explores what happened, integrating research employing a mixed methods research design including a review of the literature, expert interviews, household interviews, a series of nationally representative and local surveys, and a content analysis of political testimony. It starts with a brief history of the shale gas debate in the UK and social science research on the issue. It then examines the UK's Shale Gas landscape, and in particular energy policy failure, by considering three issues: first, the framing of the shale gas debate in the national Parliament, exploring the arguments for and against it; second, changing public perceptions and attitudes towards shale gas development; and third, the attitudes and lived experiences of the communities most affected by shale gas exploration activities. These three dimensions are combined to explain the UK Government's shale gas failure to-date. The paper concludes by identifying the lessons learnt from the Government's initial policy failure, both in relation to further shale gas exploration, but also for other technologies required for a future Net-Zero energy system.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering T Technology > TN Mining engineering. Metallurgy |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Global Energy Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Shale gas industry -- Government policy -- Great Britain, Shale gas industry -- Great Britain, Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects -- Great Britain, Hydraulic fracturing -- Social aspects -- Great Britain | |||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Energy Policy | |||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd. | |||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0301-4215 | |||||||||||||||
| Official Date: | September 2022 | |||||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 168 | |||||||||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 13 | |||||||||||||||
| Article Number: | 113132 | |||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113132 | |||||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 July 2022 | |||||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 July 2022 | |||||||||||||||
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