Friday, October 26, 2012

Shale oil and gas boom puts global warming issue on the back burner

South China Morning Post: A technological revolution is transforming the world's energy landscape as we move from an expectation of shortages of oil and gas to a new era of abundance. The development of natural gas from shale, that has already taken off in the US, and a variety of technologies are creating new options for oil development, so much so that the notion of peak oil has vanished from the conversation. We can expect some consequences. Chief among them is the fact that, as energy gets more abundant, the incentives...

URL: http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1069621/shale-oil-and-gas-boom-puts-global-warming-issue-back-burner

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