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Unnatural Gas: The Inflated Promise of a Not-So-Clean Fuel
Commondreams.org Views — ... supplies for millions of Americans while still failing to solve the climate crisis. Electric utilities have expanded their consumption because gas-fired plants can be "turned up" to meet high peak power demand more quickly than can coal-fired plants. Natural gas is also more climate-friendly than coal and less menacing than nuclear energy. With the discovery of drilling techniques that can extract natural gas from deep shale formations, the authoritative Potential Gas Committee estimates that the total of confirmed and potentially accessible gas reserves has grown 35 percent ...

Natural Gas pains
Pundit Review — ... to increase production while at the same time reducing environmental impact. These kinds of technological advancements have led directly to an explosion of new gas finds and ultimately, proven reserves. Potential Gas Committee reports unprecedented increase in magnitude of U.S. natural gas resource base GOLDEN, Colo., June 18, 2009 – The Potential Gas Committee (PGC) today released the results of its latest biennial assessment of the nation’s natural gas resources, which indicates that the United States possesses a total resource base of 1,836 trillion cubic feet (Tcf). This is ...