By DAVID BROOKS The United States is a country that has received many blessings, and once upon a time you could assume that Americans would come together to take advantage of them. But you can no longer make that assumption. The country is more divided and more clogged by special interests. Now we groan to [...]
The Marcellus Shale natural gas industry has gotten tripped up by the F-bomb. Not that word. “Fracking has become almost a dirty word,” said Brian McDermott, spokesman for Gregory FCA Communications, an Ardmore public relations firm that has measured popular sentiments associated with various resource-extraction terms. It found fracking lacking, scoring even lower in positives [...]
Ziff Energy Group has a press release called “Shale Gas Outlook to 2020” on their website predicting that unconventional gas plays now active across North America will account for 53% of the continent’s gas production by 2020. The production of economical natural gas from shales during the next ten years is being attributed to advances [...]
