Unconventional reservoirs have gained substantial attention due to huge amount of stored reserves which are challenging to produce. This mobile application aims to address both groundwater monitoring and management as well as UOG extraction operations in a single platform, to enable regulators to protect groundwater resources more effectively during UOG extraction, while simultaneously enhancing transparency in the UOG industry. ![]() It focuses on the science–society–policy interface by proposing a civic informatics platform to assist with on-the-ground enforcement of regulations via a mobile application. This study addresses these enforcement challenges in South Africa. Such regulations are, however, often not effectively enforced, which negatively affects the protection of water resources during UOG extraction. UOG development could commence as soon as regulations to protect natural resources such as water have been published. South Africa, which is energy-constrained, but also water-scarce, is currently considering UOG extraction as an additional energy resource. Regulations are one of the main tools to achieve government policy on natural resource protection. ![]() Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) is an important energy source for many countries, but requires large quantities of water for its development, and may pollute water resources. Viewing fracking through the lens of the water-energy nexus, however, both adds a broader context to this federalism debate and suggests that fracking should constitute both a significant focus of and potential testing ground for the increasing federal interest in integrating water management and energy policy. Fracking has already been the subject of serious federalism debates, but these debates have generally focused on whether an individual state or the federal government is the more appropriate regulator of fracking and its environmental impacts - i.e., the debate has concentrated around issues of how to fit fracking into more traditional governance structures for on-shore energy development, water resource management, and environmental regulation, all of which suggest that states should be the primary regulators. Thus, the water-energy nexus demands that regulators view fracking’s intersections with water resources as more than “merely” an environmental law problem.Developing water policy and energy policy in tandem, however, raises federalism issues that are relevant to the United States’s increasing reliance on fracking and shale gas to supply its natural gas needs. This nexus acknowledges that, just as water supply and energy production are mutually dependent, so water policy and energy policy should also develop in tandem. Utah State Parks authorities are conducting a criminal investigation, and the Emery County Attorney's Office also is reviewing the incident to determine if charges should be filed.While the actual and potential water impacts of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) are well-known and the subject of sometimes intense scholarly debate, few discussions to date have situated fracking within the larger legal and policy conundrum known as the water-energy nexus. We look forward to doing everything we can to make it right and move on." "We've always supported the Boy Scouts and if that's what they feel is best, we support that decision," Hall said. Both men are from Highland, Utah, about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City. They had been troop leaders for a few years, Hall said, and hope to continue to be involved in organization in the future using what happened as a teaching point. Hall said they found out about losing their Boy Scouts positions Monday morning. They were leading a group of teenage Boy Scouts on a trip when it happened. They said the rock formation was loose and they feared it was dangerous. ![]() Taylor and his two companions can then be seen cheering, high-fiving and dancing. Hall and Taylor came under fire last week after posting a video on Facebook where Taylor can be seen wedging himself between a formation and a boulder to knock a large rock off the formation's top. The central Utah park is dotted with thousands of the eerie, mushroom-shaped sandstone formations. The rock formation they toppled over is about 170 million years old, Utah State Parks spokesman Eugene Swalberg said.
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