[OKC] FW: PCI puts nails in nat gas coffin

Thu May 12 11:38:08 PDT 2011

Looks like this url came through a bit weird, here is a link to the report 
itself.

http://www.postcarbon.org/report/331901-will-natural-gas-fuel-america-in

Bob Waldrop, Oklahoma City

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of America’s largest natural gas company, told 60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl
that:

"In the last few years, we've discovered the equivalent of two Saudi Arabias
of oil in the form of natural gas in the United States. Not one, but two."

Fears over the environmental impacts of shale gas drilling — the technique
that has led to claims by industry of 100 years of cheap domestic natural
gas — are growing, but it seems that everyone is buying the hype that
natural gas is cheap, abundant, and “cleaner” than alternatives.

Our esteemed colleague Michael Brune, head of the Sierra Club, told Stahl,
“What we need to do is we need to promote gas as a cleaner alternative to
coal and oil, but hold the industry accountable for tighter standards.”

We at PCI have become increasingly concerned that energy and environmental
policy was being driven by assumptions that didn’t pass the smell test. Is
shale gas really cheap, abundant, and clean?

So we turned to David Hughes — Post Carbon Institute’s Fossil Fuels Fellow —
to try to answer that question. His conclusion? That these assumptions are
wrong on all counts, as PCI Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg writes in his
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You know as well as we do that energy lies at the heart of everything. And
we face unprecedented environmental, economic, and societal challenges as a
result of our continued dependence on depleting fossil fuels.

So while the subject of natural gas may seem wonky or irrelevant to our
daily lives, it’s anything but.

Please take the time to
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Thank you, as always, for your support of our work and, more important, your
own efforts to put us on a more resilient and sustainable path.

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