Law of energy underground : understanding new developments in subsurface production, transmission, and storage / edited by Donald N. Zillman, Aileen McHarg, Lila Barrera-Hernandez, and Adrian Bradbrook.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Common Law of Subsurface Activities / Barry Barton -- The Civil Law Treatment of Subsurface Resources / Jose Juan Gonzalez -- The Development of United States Common Law Concerning Underground Resources / Terence Daintith -- The Roman-Dutch Perspective on Subsurface Issues / Hanri Mostert and Meyer van den Berg -- International Legal Regimes for Subsurface Activities / Catherine Redgwell and Lavanya Rajamani -- Regulating Hydraulic Fracturing in a Mature Energy Jurisdiction / Al Lucas and Theresa Watson -- United States Treatment of Fracking / Lee Roy Paddock and Jessica Wentz -- Development of Argentine Unconventional Reserves / Lila Barrera-Hernandez -- Japan's Undersea Resources and Its New Mining Act / Kazuhiro Nakatani -- The New Algerian Legislation on Shale Gas and other Hydrocarbons / Abdou Bekhechi -- Shale Gas Regulation in Colombia / Milton Montoya -- British Encouragement and Regulation of Carbon Capture and Storage / Aileen McHarg and Mark Poustie -- The Law and Policy for Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies in China / Mingyuan Wang -- Dynamic Regulation and Technological Competition : A New Legal Approach to Carbon Capture and Storage / Endre Stavang, Gideon Parchomovsky, and Lital Helman -- Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Geothermal Development / Anita Ronne and Adrian Bradbrook -- Siting Nuclear Waste Disposal / Donald Zillman -- Electricity Substation Undergrounding in Russia / Sergey Seliverstov -- Energy Underground : New Developments in the Netherlands / Martha Roggenkamp -- German Legal Responses to New Subsurface Technologies / Gunther Kuehne -- Australian Responses to New Underground Technologies / Michael Crommelin -- Management of Subsurface Conflicts in Canada / Nigel Bankes -- Spain's Approach to New Underground Technologies / Inigo del Guayo and Jose Alenza -- Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa / Yinka Omorogbe.

Property rights in underground resources -- The international law treatment of subsurface resources -- Governing unconventional oil and gas extraction -- Addressing environmental and sustainability issues underground -- Resolving underground resource conflicts around the world.