Marianne Lavelle, The Great Shale Gas Rush, National Geographic, 2010

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• Pennsylvania sits atop one of the world’s largest natural gas reservoirs, promising clean energy and new jobs. But can this resource be extracted sustainably?
• U.S. energy industry innovators unlocked the natural gas found in deep shale rock by combining and super-charging old oil industry techniques.
• Hopes are high that jobs will flow as fast as the natural gas in the energy boom that has hit Pennsylvania.
• The shale gas industry maintains that it safeguards the environment, but accidents have sown mistrust as the industry has moved into rural communities.