Midrats

Episode 83: Shale Gas & National Security


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Energy independence and energy security are not just buzzwords.  From the car you drive to the food you eat and the heat that makes winters livable and power that makes summers productive to our urban culture; energy and power are what makes our civilization possible.
If you don't have secure energy, you do not have a secure nation. The areas of the world that have the greatest energy supplies are neither stable or natural friends of our Western Democracy.  That is a problem, and explains why most of our wars have been fought where they have been.
Is new technology helping to change the national security equasion?
To discuss for the full hour will be Amy Myers Jaffe, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies, director of the Energy Forum at the Baker Institute, author, and associate director of the Rice Energy Program at Rice University.
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