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		<title>Are Unconventionals the New Normal for Energy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The energy landscape is changing fast with so-called “unconventional” forms fast becoming the new norm, says accounting firm Ernst &#38; Young. Of the $317 billion worth of oil and gas deals struck in 2011, $66 billion were shale-related transactions, up from $55 billion the year before. That trend is set to continue, and at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloomberg: Draft Fracking Rule Has ‘Good Elements,’ Environmentalist Says</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Interior Department’s proposed guidelines for natural gas fracking on public lands don’t specify how drillers will disclose the chemicals they use. Environmentalists prefer the disclosure to the public be made on the web as well as by certified mail to landowners living within two miles of the fracking, Dusty Horwitt, senior counsel of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reuters: Making fracking politically acceptable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fracturing oil and gas from tight rock formations promises secure energy supplies for generations, but only if industry and regulators can convince voters it can be done safely without poisoning water supplies or adding to global warming. Like other forms of petroleum production, and innovative technologies such as liquefied natural gas and nuclear, shale gas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naturalgasforamerica.com/reuters-making-fracking-politically-acceptable.htm</link>
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		<title>PetroChina Invests in Canadian Project, Deepens Ties with Shell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PetroChina Co. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc deepened their collaboration in exploring unconventional gas resources with the Chinese company investing in a Canadian project and the European oil producer pledging to help it step up drilling to tap shale reserves in the second-largest economy. China’s biggest oil producer said yesterday it bought a 20 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shell to Shift U.S. Focus from Gas to Oil Shale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest energy company, will shift its investment focus to oil- rich shale in the U.S. because of lower natural-gas prices. “We are going to the lower end of our investment in the United States for shale gas,” Chief Executive Officer Peter Voser said today in an interview with Owen Thomas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FinanceAsia: PetroChina to buy stake in Shell LNG project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PetroChina plans to buy a 20% stake in a Shell liquid natural gas property in Canada for more than $1 billion. Word on the street is that PetroChina, China’s biggest oil-and-gas producer and distributor, plans to pay slightly more than $1 billion for a 20% stake in a Shell shale gas property in Canada. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naturalgasforamerica.com/financeasia-petrochina-buy-stake-shell-lng-project.htm</link>
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		<title>Shale gas: short-term pain, long-term gain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Claudia Cattaneo of the National Post discusses why shale gas is the place to be: The Obama administration’s endorsement last week of shale gas as a major pillar of its made-in-America energy vision ensures a long-term future for the resource. The big question is: How does the North American sector survive today’s depressed market environment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naturalgasforamerica.com/shale-gas-shortterm-pain-longterm-gain.htm</link>
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		<title>New Canada-wide operating practices for hydraulic fracturing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers announced new Canada-wide hydraulic fracturing operating practices designed to improve water management and water and fluids reporting for shale gas and tight gas development across Canada. “The hydraulic fracturing operating practices demonstrate the Canadian natural gas industry’s continued efforts to ensure responsible resource development and protection of Canada’s water [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naturalgasforamerica.com/canadawide-operating-practices-hydraulic-fracturing.htm</link>
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		<title>Financial Times: Shale gas fate trips up on politics and bubblenomics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just before the shale gas industry was blessed as good in the president’s State of the Union address last week, it admitted it was broke. The Wall Street maxim is that they never ring a bell at the top. However, on January 23, Chesapeake Energy did ring a bell at the bottom. The undoubted leader [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://naturalgasforamerica.com/financial-times-shale-gas-fate-trips-politics-bubblenomics.htm</link>
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		<title>When you are betting on shale gas, watch the dealer’s eyes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Steve LeVine When someone invites you to a party but leaves before dessert, it might be time to locate your own coat and hat. Such are the suspicions generated by Chesapeake Energy, which after selling numerous billion-dollar pieces of its vast shale gas holdings to the world&#8217;s largest energy companies has abruptly announced that [...]]]></description>
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