Energy in Depth

Energy in Depth: Today’s News

Contra Costa Times: Editorial: A Huge Boost for Cleaner Energy. The Contra Costa Times editorializes that natural gas can be “a realistic bridge from where the nation is now, with its heavy dependence on oil and coal, to a future with sufficient supplies of green power from biomass, solar, geothermal, wind, tidal and other renewable energy sources.”

Albany Times-Union: Mine Marcellus to Boost Energy. In a letter to the editor, local citizen Jennifer Levine of Delmar writes: “The scare tactics employed by environmental groups…are based on isolated incidents of water-well contamination not definitively linked to hydraulic fracturing…Concerned New Yorkers should check out the U.S. Department of Energy’s publication, ‘Modern Shale Gas Development in the United States: A Primer (April 2009),’ to learn how gas is extracted from shale. The facts and science will put their minds at ease…Development of the Marcellus Shale will revitalize the upstate economy and help our nation in becoming energy independent.”