How can any discussion of Natural Gas...
How can any discussion of Natural Gas not at least include a mention of fracking?
This is especially relevant with respect to this article because pro-fracking industry groups are the very people responsible for inflating the reserve estimates.
Fracking is the process of injecting chemicals deep into the ground to squeeze out natural gas.
Fracking threatens the water supply of over 100 million Americans. It is a pending disaster that will make the recent Gulf spill look like a hiccup. It could ruin the ground water across large swaths of America - a disaster that would be permanent on a human scale.
The frackers claim that their wells are much deeper than the aquifer, but all it takes is a problem with the casing going down into the well, or a problem with their catchment pond, their waste disposal methods, etc. for their poisons and natural gas to leach into the water table. They can't promise that it won't happen, and it's almost guaranteed that it will, over and over again, as it already has happened many times.
This issue should be at the top of everyone's list! See the documentary Gasland, and stop the gas companies before it's too late!
