China Digital Times: China`s massive energy demands are expected to keep growing as its oil fields continue drying up, and some estimations have 79% of the country`s oil coming from abroad by 2030. After an exceptionally smoggy year, central authorities have declared "war against pollution" and promised a gradual weaning away from coal-fired power. Amid all this and as global debate around the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" rages on, China`s massive shale gas reserves are becoming an increasingly...