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Study: Natural Gas GHG Impact

Written by Greg Russell | Dec 30, 2011 5:21:07 PM

The Times Leader has an interesting article on a new study done by researchers at Wilkes University on the greenhouse gas footprint of natural gas:  "'The main message is that seven independent studies now agree that shale gas has a lower greenhouse footprint than coal. That conclusion largely contradicts the findings by a team of researchers at Cornell who published a paper last April that argued shale gas has a higher footprint than coal due to inadvertent releases of methane at gas wells,' [Professor] Klemow said."

Seven?  Nice.