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Climate Bill Mounts As Dash For Gas Speeds Up [1]

The accelerating dash for natural gas risks a bitter backlash as the environmental cost of exploiting new shale deposits and of transporting it in liquid form spoil its credentials as the greenest fossil fuel.

Gas was long regarded as a "bridging fuel" for use in relatively easily-to-build, gas-fired power plants, until enough renewable or low-emission nuclear power could be achieved.

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Publication Date: 
21/07/2011
Barbara Lewis and Henning Gloystein [2]
Planet Ark (Australia) [3]
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Natural Gas Exploration [4], Climate Change [5], Fossil Fuels [6], Nuclear Power [7], Renewable Energy [8], Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) [9], Japan [10], Natural Disasters [11], Carbon Dioxide [12], Water Supply [13], European Union (EU) [14], Green House Gases [15], Methane [16]
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