Natural Gas Boom May Halt Renewable Energy Growth, IEA Warns

Yale Environment 360: A surge in natural gas supplies worldwide could halt any meaningful growth in the renewable energy sector over the next two decades if governments don't take action, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warns. New technologies to extract natural gas, primarily from shale formations using a technique known as hydraulic fracturing, could triple production of unconventional gas globally between 2010 to 2035, to about 1.6 trillion cubic meters, according to a new IEA report. These new sources of supply...

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