Whitehall's fracking science failure: shale gas really is worse for climate than coal

The Ecologist
May 23, 2017, 9:25 am45 pts
$photo of Whitehall's fracking science failure: shale gas really is worse for climate than coal image$ The UK government claim that fracking is a 'clean' energy source rests on the conclusions of a single scientific paper, writes Paul Mobbs. And now that paper has been conclusively invalidated: it uses misleading figures that understate the methane emissions from fracking, and subsequent findings have left it…

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