Interior Secretary: Hydraulic Fracking "Very Much a Necessary Part" of Natural Gas' Future

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2011 · News & Politics

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Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar told a breakfast with reporters sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor that there are safe ways to use hydraulic fracturing and that without it, the US would be unable to tap much of its vast natural gas reserves.

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On Wednesday, October 5, 2011, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined the Monitor Breakfast for a conversation with reporters.

Kenneth Lee "Ken" Salazar is the current United States Secretary of the Interior. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Colorado from 2005 to 2009. He and Mel Martinez (R-Florida) were the first Hispanic U.S. Senators since 1977; they were joined by Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) in January 2006. Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, he served as Attorney General of Colorado from 1999 to 2005.

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