Fracking Chinese

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http://rt.com/business/china-gas-shale-earthquake-895/

The Chinese want to join the shale gas revolution, even if it means drilling for oil in China’s earthquake hot bed in the Sichuan region, where nearly 70,000 died in an earthquake in 2008.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc and China National Petroleum have started 'fracking' operations in the province.

China hopes to boost annual shale gas production to 6.5 billion cubic meters by 2015, and reserves are estimated at about 1,115 trillion cubic feet, according to the US Energy Information Administration, higher than the estimated 665 trillion gas reserves on American soil.

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China, home to roughly 20 percent of the world’s population, only controls 6 percent of the world’s fresh water supply, and often experiences serious water shortages. Adding 'fracking' to this equation could only further exacerbate the problem.

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1. Their polluted air isn't enough for them to realize they've got a serious crises

because of pollution caused by oil? Has anyone calculated the amount of smog that would be put into the air if all of those gas reserves were actually used? It boggles my mind the utter recklessness of it all.