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Posted Jan 26, 2012
If you had the ability to have clean, reliable energy delivered to your house at an affordable price, would you do so? Of course you would. And the good news for millions of Americans who use natural gas is that their monthly bills are about to get even easier to pay... Keep Reading »

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Posted Jan 25, 2012
According to most geologists, shale has been a natural geological feature of the earth’s outermost crust for about two billion years now, give or take a couple hundred million. But would you believe it? In all that time, the word "shale" had never been mentioned in a State of the Union address... Keep Reading »

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Posted Jan 23, 2012
Set aside all the stage props, backdrops and inflatable scenery deployed as part of the continuing saga known as Dimock, and you’re left with a pretty basic question – albeit one to which very few outside media have gone out of their way to find a legitimate, science-based answer. Quite simply: Is the water up there safe?  Keep Reading »

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Cross-posted on EIDMarcellus.org
Posted Jan 20, 2012
It was touted by their PR consultants in a media advisory sent around this week as “a major new paper” in response to the mountain of criticism that has accumulated since the release of their initial study last April (that is, after the first one the year before was retracted).  Keep Reading »

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Posted Jan 19, 2012
A new report from the Bipartisan Policy Center's Energy Project -- co-chaired by former Senators Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Trent Lott (R-MS) -- reveals what many of us have known for some time: the development of natural gas from shale is a boon for job creation and is generating enormous benefits for consumers in the form of lower energy costs. Keep Reading »

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