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Citation Label: GEN348
Publication Name: What LEED did for buildings, this could do for shale gas production
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Author Name: Watson, Matt
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Publication Year: 2014
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http://www.edf.org/blog/2014/01/21/what-leed-did-buildings-could-do-shale-gas-production

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Annotation: The Center for Sustainable Shale Development is an unprecedented collaboration – bringing together environmental groups, philanthropic organizations and energy companies to develop performance standards for reducing environmental impacts from shale gas production, and setting up a system so gas producers can have their operations audited and certified against those standards.Companies can get certification, similar to how buildings can attain LEED™ certification in building sustainable homes and offices.
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