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Week of November 1, 2009 - November 7, 2009

Natural Gas - Not All It's Frakked Up To Be


The craze of late has been that natural gas will be a primary solution to the energy problem in the United States. This news has come as supposedly vast natural gas reserves have been found, and the natural gas industry has found that its interests conflict with the coal and oil industries. The environmental community has also been thrown this bone that natural gas is an attractive alternative because of lower CO2 emissions, and is less destructive than the devastation of mountain top mining. This "alternative" falls in the category of "too good to be true," just like the vaporware of Obama's support of "clean coal."

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Sociologist, teacher, activist and writer. I know that my name sometimes fools people into thinking I am male, but am a woman.

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