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===Economic Impact of shale development:===

===Economic Impact of shale development:===

* Economic benefits of fracking: see the March 2015 Brookings Institute analysis: summary and link at http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2015/03/economic-benefits-of-fracking.  

* [http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2015/03/economic-benefits-of-fracking Economic benefits of fracking]: see the March 2015 Brookings Institute analysis.  

* National Bureau of Economic Research study (October 2105) by Dartmouth professors focuses on the income and employment consequences of fracking, finding that over a third of fracking revenue stays within the regional economy, http://www.nber.org/papers/w21624.  

* National Bureau of Economic Research study (October 2105) by Dartmouth professors focuses on the income and employment consequences of fracking, finding that over a third of fracking revenue stays within the regional economy, http://www.nber.org/papers/w21624.

 

===Best Practices and Standards:===

===Best Practices and Standards:===

* U.S. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Natural Gas Subcommittee report (2011) gives best practice recommendations and documents their implementation in the final report. (http://www.shalegas.energy.gov/resources/index.html)  

* U.S. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Natural Gas Subcommittee report (2011) gives best practice recommendations and documents their implementation in the final report. (http://www.shalegas.energy.gov/resources/index.html)