Monday, June 27, 2011

The Shale Breakthrough

There is a new energy boom getting underway, and it will have a big impact where I live. Huge new discoveries of oil and natural gas are opening up, thanks to the ingenuity of private industry. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing are the methods being used to release oil and natural gas in shale deposits. This Wall Street Journal article explores some of the issues we need to think about as this new boom gets underway.

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