Look closely at
the energy-related news stories of the past dozen or so days, and, between the
lines, you’ll see a theme: government makes predictions and assertions that
cannot be backed up by data to protect or project preferred messaging.
Fracking News
The unusual
collaboration of the University of Texas (UT) and the Environmental Defense
Fund (EDF) conducted a first-ever detailed examination—more than 500 wells were
analyzed—of individual drilling sites to determine the total amount of escaped
methane from shale gas operations. The study
was released on September 16 by the National Academy of Sciences. The New York
Times story
on the study opens with: “Drilling for shale gas through hydraulic fracturing,
or fracking, appears to cause smaller leaks of the greenhouse gas methane than
the federal government had estimated.” It reports:
“Previous E.P.A. estimates relied on engineering calculations, and other
studies gathered data via aircraft flights over drilling sites.”…..To Read More….
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