Gas companies pressured by shareholders to provide info, safeguards

By: Cristine Webb | Topic: News | Comments: 0 |

These brief articles suggest that gas companies and lobbyists may be resistant to addressing the concerns of their shareholders regarding the methods of gas extraction and waste disposal currently being employed in the Marcellus Shale area. Promises of energy security and independence don’t seem to be lessening the demand for greater transparency over the methods and materials used in hydraulic fracturing.

From Darryl Fears at the Washington Post: Energy firms queried on gas-extraction technique
From Steve Levine at Foreign Policy: The shareholder challenge to the natural gas revolution
From Mike Lee at Bloomberg: Exxon, Chevron face pressure on fracturing disclosure

Author: Cristine Webb

Cristine is enrolled in the Master's of Environmental Studies Program, where she has been focusing with laserlike intensity on the methods and shortfalls of communicating complex environmental issues in journalism. She has every intention of graduating in the Spring of 2011.

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