The IEA says such precautions would add 7% to the cost of a shale-gas well a small price for a healthy industry.
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Rising incomes have also outpaced rising oil prices and sustained emerging market demand despite a general reduction in subsidies, the IEA says.
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That is still a lot of oil production, but a lot less than the 8.88 barrels per day the IEA says they produce now.
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The IEA says that hydro will continue to be an important technology for years to come and must not be excluded from policy considerations.
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The IEA says that the technologies to address these issues exist or are in development and if they are adopted, fracking might be more widely accepted.
For its part, India will overtake the United States as the second-biggest user of coal by 2025 and will be the largest net importer of coal by 2020, the IEA says.
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Developing World Oil Demand Steadily RisingEmerging markets are almost entirely the source of this increased demand, with China accounting for 41 percent of demand growth over that time period, the IEA forecast says.
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Transport already accounts for more than half of global oil consumption, says the IEA, and that share will rise as the number of cars doubles to 1.7bn.
Existing terminals can take in 617 billion cubic metres a year, says the IEA, and others under construction should increase that to 846 billion cubic metres by 2010.
"Rapid deployment of energy-efficient technologies would postpone this complete lock-in to 2022, buying time to secure a much-needed global agreement to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, " says the IEA outlook.
So says the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) in their new report that Andrea Leadsom MP has helped launch.
However, the International Energy Agency (IEA), a rich-world energy consumers' club, says that European customers have already stopped buying Iranian crude and that Asian buyers are looking elsewhere.
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