The ongoing wave of natural gas explosions continued to take a deadly toll around the United States since our last column. Here’s a brief tally of the “highlights,” if you will. An explosion at a natural gas drilling rig near Fort Lupton, Colorado, killed one man and injured three others on Wednesday, Aug. 15, around
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Usually, it’s the natural gas explosions that get all the attention, probably because an incident of sudden, massive destruction has a way of grabbing one’s attention. But we cannot ignore the damage done by natural gas leaks; indeed, in the long term, they may well prove more harmful than all the natural gas explosions put
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Researchers at the United States Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) have released a report documenting and assessing substantial “undiscovered” natural gas and oil resources  that extend well up the East Coast of the United States, as far as western Massachusetts and central Connecticut. “The geology indicates that many of the coal beds and shale basins may be
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