Is shale gas the GM of energy?

BBC: In the early 1990s, British people woke up to the fact that their food supply was about to undergo a technological revolution. Genetically modified crops had arrived. We didn't ask for them, we didn't know much about them. Fuelled by tales of superweeds, Franken-foods and mice made sick by eating GM potatoes, we came to not like them very much. With similar sentiments echoed in most parts of Europe, the region has remained pretty much a GM-free zone, as have many other countries around the...

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