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Worse than Coal?

December 8, 2010 by Geoffrey Styles
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As I noted in last Wednesday's posting, one of the questions that came up in a webinar on shale gas in which I participated concerned the climate consequences of higher recent estimates of methane leakage from US natural gas systems. In reading further comments and blog postings on this subject, I was surprised to see assertions that... [read more]

Shale Gas: Not Clean, Either?

April 5, 2010 by Tom Konrad
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Not only are there serious questions about just how abundant natural gas from shale plays is, it now turns out that this “Cheap, Clean, Abundant, and Domestic” resource may turn out to only be domestic. In a draft paper, Cornell researcher Robert Howarth calculates that, when methane leakage from hydraulic fracturing is included, along... [read more]