How Do You Talk to (Educate) Friends & Neighbors About Shale?
It’s a common problem for those of us who are immersed in the shale energy industry. We are so saturated all the time with the arguments and counter-arguments and details about shale drilling, that when faced with a family member, friend or neighbor who isn’t well-versed in the industry, we grope for the words and terms to use to describe this incredible industry and its successes. Most of the time our friends and family have a built-in reticence and caution about shale drilling because they know nothing more than what mainstream media feeds them, most of it untrue.
So how do we quickly, accurately and effectively communicate the positive shale drilling message? Michael Krancer, former Secretary of the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection, has a solution, which he shared recently at the Energy Inc. conference in Pittsburgh…
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Those crazy, anti-drilling kids at Duke University are at it again. They released a “study” in a “peer-reviewed” journal yesterday (a study funded in part by the anti-drilling Park Foundation) that took samples from a creek downstream from a wastewater treatment plant that 
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MDN became aware that newly nominated (and currently Acting) Secretary of the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection, Chris Abruzzo, would be attending Shale Insight 2013. So we requested an interview with the Secretary, and he obliged! To our knowledge, we were the only media interview he granted during a brief walking around the show visit on Wednesday.