Sunday, January 27, 2013

Shale gas boom now visible from space

Financial Times

FT Exclusive
Sunday January 27 2013

Shale gas boom now visible from space
Oil companies at the heart of the US shale oil boom are burning off enough gas to power all the homes in Chicago and Washington combined in a practice causing growing concern about the waste of resources and damage to the environment, and the lights burning in the Bakken and Texas’ Eagle Ford shale fields can clearly be seen in night-time satellite photography
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