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Look Before You Leap Off the Natural Gas Bridge: Lessons from the Rockies PDF

This five-part presentation by our Director of Economics, Pete Morton, provides a cautionary tale for those proposing to increase natural gas drilling – based on the lessons learned from the recent natural gas drilling boom in the Rockies.

Natural Gas Teleconference AUDIO

A teleconference was held after the House Natural Resources Committee held hearings on reforms to the nation’s oil and gas program to discuss the growing impacts of hydraulic fracturing, a process used in most natural gas drilling projects. Listen to the teleconference below.

Natural Gas: A "Clean" Fossil Fuel PDF

As the debate over climate change and energy policy legislation heats up, the natural gas industry and its allies in Congress have taken to describing natural gas as a "clean bridge fuel" to a clean energy future, and are promoting various federal policies to encourage the wider use of natural gas. Compared to the combustion of coal as a boiler fuel, natural gas is indeed a "cleaner" fuel. However, it is important to bear in mind that:

Natural Gas Drilling and Habitat Fragmentation PDF

The natural gas industry and its allies have lately portrayed natural gas as a "clean bridge fuel" to a more benign energy future for America. They and their political allies have called for legislation providing incentives that promote the wider use of natural gas.

Better Energy VIDEO

Nearly 300,000 natural gas and oil wells have already been drilled in the Rockies, and hundreds of thousands more are planned. See the greatest threat to the Rockies up close: check out this video for a stunning bird’s-eye view of the destructive effects of the Bush administration’s failed energy policy in the West.  

Energy and Western Wildlands: A GIS Analysis of Economically Recoverable Oil and Gas PDF

This report presents the findings from two analyses conducted by The Wilderness Society in relation to gas and oil resources on public lands in the American West.