Safe, responsible natural gas development has little to no impact on water quality in Pennsylvania, according to two recently released academic studies. A peer-reviewed study conducted by a team of geoscientists and computer scientists at Penn State University found that fracking is not a major threat to groundwater – and, in fact, identified “an overall […]
Independent Studies Confirm Fracking Poses No Threat to Drinking Water
June 19, 2018 | Filed Under: Blog
The Arithmetic of Shale Gas (Yale University)
June 15, 2012 | Filed Under: Information, Studies, Reports & Presentations
Using the economic tools of traditional cost benefit analysis, we demonstrate that for one given year, 2010, the consumer surplus from shale gas is in excess of $100 billion to the US economy.