“Pennsylvania’s residential consumers enjoy gas bills that are on average 40% lower than 10 years ago.”- University of Pennsylvania, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
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NATURAL GAS & HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN THE MEDIA
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NATURAL GAS & HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN THE MEDIA
NATURAL GAS & HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN THE MEDIA
PENNSYLVANIA'S GAS DECADE
STUDY CONFIRMS THE SAFETY OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN PENNSYLVANIA
"The most interesting thing we discovered was the groundwater chemistry in one of the areas most heavily developed for shale gas – an area with 1400 new gas wells – does not appear to be getting worse with time, and may even be getting better."- Penn State University
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NEW STUDY SHOWS POSITIVE IMPACT OF NATURAL GAS ON WORKERS AND COMMUNITIES
"Natural gas and oil touches virtually every facet of our life -- from heating our homes and fueling transportation to life-saving medical devices and cosmetics at the drug store." - American Petroleum Institute
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AFFORDABLE DOMESTIC ENERGY AND ENERGY SECURITY
"The link between hydraulic fracturing and U.S. global leadership in oil and natural gas production is direct: Without fracking, there’d be no American energy renaissance – or the array of benefits it is providing to our economy, to individual households, U.S. manufacturers and other businesses.” – American Petroleum Institute
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WE HAVE MORE OIL AND GAS THAN WE NEED
"Decades ago, the world was told it was running on empty. Today, we have more oil than we need.” – The Telegraph
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NATURAL GAS DEVELOPMENT LEADS TO CLEANER AIR
"U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are near 20-year lows, and a major reason for that progress is the development and use of America’s abundant natural gas resources.” - Energy Tomorrow
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COLUMN: OIL AND GAS JOBS AWAIT
"Natural gas and oil support an additional 2.7 jobs for every direct job in the industry, adding $1.3 trillion to the U.S. economy and generating more than $714 billion — or 6.7 percent — of total U.S. labor income” - The Detroit News
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REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
"We should strengthen our positon as the top natural gas producer--- It not only can provide safe, cheap power, but it can also help reduce our carbon emissions” – President Barack Obama
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MORE CO2 EMISSIONS DECREASES EXPECTED, THANKS TO NATURAL GAS
"EIA projects energy-related CO2 emissions to be substantially below 2005 levels by 2040 thanks, in large measure, to a continued shift to less carbon-intensive fuels, such as natural gas.” - Energy Tomorrow
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METHANE EMISSIONS ARE DOWN
"Between 2006 and 2012, EPA data show methane emissions fell 40 percent while production of natural gas surged 37 percent.” - Energy Tomorrow
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EPA SAYS FRACKING HAS NO 'WIDESPREAD' IMPACT ON DRINKING WATER
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it has found no evidence that hydraulic fracking has “widespread, systemic impacts” on drinking water” - NBC News
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ENERGY PROGRESS IS ALREADY HERE
“No technology has done more in the past decade to help the U.S. reduce emissions than hydraulic fracturing.”- US News
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NATURAL GAS, NOT RENEWABLES, IS LARGEST FACTOR IN EMISSIONS DECLINE
“U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have declined 14 percent since 2005, with natural gas as the single largest reason.” - Forbes
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THE ENVIRONMENTAL CASE FOR NATURAL GAS
“The role that natural gas can play in the future of global energy is inextricably linked to its ability to help address environmental problems.” – International Energy Agency
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THE U.S. IS ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE BIGGEST OIL AND GAS BOOM EVER
“The transformation is set to give U.S. diplomacy considerably more clout, lessening the dependence on Middle Eastern oil and making the U.S. the answer to some developing nations’ most pressing needs.” – Fortune
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THE U.S. LEADS WORLD IN REDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS
“The latest world climate report from the BP Statistical Review of World Energy finds that in 2017, America reduced its carbon emissions by 0.5 percent, the most of all major countries ” – Washington Post
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“Fracking has been around for decades, and there’s a tremendous amount of misinformation out there about it, a lot of fear that I think is unfounded.” – U.S. Secretary of Interior, Sally Jewell
"My point of view, based on my own study of hydraulic fracking, is that it can be done safely and has been done safely hundreds of thousands of times.” – Former US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
“There’s nothing inherently dangerous in fracking that sound engineering practices can’t accomplish.” – Current EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy