Except that there are more and more examples of
how extracting natural gas is terrible for communities - Just look at Penn..
Not exact matches
How do you expect to
extract oil from the Alberta Tar Sands once the Canadian
natural gas reserves (currently about 10 years left) are exhausted?
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/pennsylvania-
gas-drillers-dump-pollution-drinking-water-supplies/ The fact is, no matter
how much we want to use
natural gas as a new fuel, or even a transition fuel, off of oil, the process of
extracting it can't be done safely and without consequently poisoning our water and ourselves.
Here's
how it might work: Next year and in each year thereafter, Congress would set an overall cap on fossil fuels
extracted by upstream energy producers, which David A. Weisbach of the University of Chicago Law School identifies as «fewer than 3,000 entities» — petroleum refiners, coal mines and domestic
natural gas processors — «plus imports at a few locations.»
Meanwhile —
how much
natural gas is going to be
extracted from the area?
In a speech at Pace University yesterday, Veerappa Moily, India's minister of petroleum and
natural gas, described
how, as part of a government plan for energy self sufficiency by 2030, India is planning an aggressive push to
extract natural gas from its large shale deposits.
I think this emerging form of emissions accounting provides a valuable way to show
how the growing coal (and
natural gas) greenhouse -
gas emissions commitment will play out, but — because of the competing social and economic values embedded in that
extracted energy, along with the equity argument poor countries use against established fossil - powered industrial giants — I'm not sure it leads to a more effective strategy for cutting those emissions.
The latest example of
how wrong the Malthusian - influenced doubters have been is provided by fracking, horizontal drilling, and associated technology applied particularly to
extracting oil and
natural gas from shale formations.