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Natural Gas in Nova Scotia: What’s best for all?
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By Judy Bond
Last week Nova Scotia accepted bids from companies proposing to develop onshore natural gas reservoirs from shale deep under the province. Natural gas is cleaner burning than coal and oil, creates less global warming, and is locally available. But what are the pros and cons for Nova Scotia?
While the hydraulic fracturing procedure has been used by the oil, gas and water well industries for many years, its application to producing shale gas is a recent development in the last decade or so. Now that oil and gas from sandstones and limestones is starting to decline, and coal has to be imported to Nova Scotia, the time has come to look at mining more inaccessible shale gas to fill the energy gap until renewable sources of energy like solar, wind, tidal, and hydroelectric can be more widely used. Continue…
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