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Iain Stewart and Hazel Gibson Explore the US Experience of the Shale Gas 'Bonanza' GeoscientistThe Fellowship magazine of The Geological Society of London | www.geolsoc.org.uk | Volume 23 No 9 | October 2013 NUMBERS GAME Explaining UK shale gas resource figures to the media SHALE GAS [SPECIAL] CHARNIA THREAT Secrecy is not the way to save the Bradgate Park exposure MEET THE FRACKERS Iain Stewart and Hazel Gibson explore the US experience of the shale gas ‘bonanza’ CONTENTS GEOSCIENTIST IN THIS ISSUE OCTOBER 2013 FEATURES 16 NUMBERS GAME Mike Stephenson (BGS) on what it’s like to be caught in a media feeding frenzy REGULARS 05 WELCOME Ted Nield is exasperated by bickering over energy sources when we are going to need all of it, and savings too 06 SOCIETY NEWS What your Society is doing at home and abroad, in London and the regions 09 SOAPBOX Joel Gill on how geoscience can help 10 COVER FEATURE: MEET THE FRACKERS alleviate global poverty Shale gas - fatal distraction or essential 21 LETTERS We welcome your thoughts bridge over a looming energy gap? 22 BOOK & ARTS One exhibition and three books reviewed by Douglas Palmer, Ted Nield, John Dewey and John Marshall 24 PEOPLE Geoscientists in the news and on the move 26 OBITUARY Two distinguished Fellows remembered 27 CALENDAR Society activities this month 29 CROSSWORD Win a special publication of your choice ONLINE SPECIALS n CHARNIA Roger Mason, the ‘schoolboy’ who first saw the famous fossils in Bradgate Park, Leicester, on moves 16 22 to protect this priceless exposure OCTOBER 2013 03 ~ EDITOR’S COMMENT GEOSCIENTIST TENSIONS MAY ARISE BETWEEN LOCALS AND INCOMERS; SOCIAL COHESION CAN FALTER Front cover image~ FRACK THIS s this month’s feature articles Geoscientist is the E enquiries@centuryone demonstrate, whether in the UK or Fellowship magazine of publishing.ltd.uk the USA, the PR problems associated the Geological Society W www.centuryone of London publishing.ltd.uk with shale gas are not primarily geological. 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