In his 2014 State of the Union Address President Obama stated of coal seam gas: “if extracted safely, it’s the bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change.” Many arguments against fracking aside (purely due to lack of space, I assure you), scientists are demonstrating that the U.S.’s growing reliance on gas-run power stations could actually be releasing more greenhouse gases than burning coal due to the amount of methane leaked during the extraction process. They also argue that by switching to gas for the next 100 years or so, we are delaying investment in the renewable energy sources that we will ultimately have to rely on when fossil fuels are depleted.
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