Shale offers freedom and security – but it could be a trap

Guardian: Wars are fought over energy. So vital is it to the economy that the few custodians of the world's oil and gas wealth have the power to determine global booms and recessions. At last, it seems, a new source of energy might liberate us from this conflict – fossil fuels trapped within dense rock for millennia that we are now able to free, thanks to advances in engineering unthinkable a decade ago, and that are available in countries from Britain to Australia. But those same fossil fuels, much higher...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/nov/15/shale-gas-freedom-security-trap
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