NGO Says Natural Gas Provides New Option for Immediate U.S. Carbon Cuts

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The American Clean Skies Foundation (ACSF), together with the UN Foundation and the Worldwatch Institute, today hosted a major side event in Copenhagen focusing on the ways natural gas — and, in particular, the discovery of vast reserves of unconventional, or shale gas — can accelerate the transition to a global low-carbon economy. Natural gas can generate electricity with 50-70 percent less CO(2) than coal per BTU. As is the case in the U.S., many other countries have also recently discovered very large new unconventional reserves of natural gas, primarily in deeply buried shale rock formations

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Posted on December 21, 2009 · in Press Releases

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