Trump's Environment Plans Could Spark Opposition
View on BBC News website"'Most of these shale gas (and tight oil) resources are on private lands, according to the Congressional Research Service, so "opening up" public lands will do little to induce production until prices rise and could even have a depressing effect on prices,' writes Alan Krupnick in a blog post for Resources for the Future, an independent economic research organisation. 'If prices were to fall, the advantage natural gas has over coal would further widen unless coal prices fell as well.'"
