Rush to Extract Natural Gas Stirs Health Concerns
183 views · Published 23 December 2011 · 3:26 · Indexed 22 September 2026
Channel: Voice of America · 2011 · News & Politics
The rush is on to tap new sources of domestic energy in the United States and the competition is especially fierce in Pennsylvania. The eastern state sits atop the Marcellus Shale, a 350- million-year-old rock formation, more than a kilometer underground, that holds the largest reservoir of natural gas in the United States. But controversy surrounds how operators drill the gas. VOA's Rosanne Skirble reports.
