Did you know the only country that's met it's Paris agreement carbon emission target is the US? And it had nothing to do with any Obama policy - it happened because of the drilling industry's development of techniques that opened up shale gas reserves that weren't economic before.
It was an oil man who did it:
The rise [in shale gas] has been helped along by a variety of factors.... But the biggest difference was down to the efforts of one man: George Mitchell, ...who saw the potential for improving a known technology, fracking, to get at the gas. Big oil and gas companies were interested in shale gas but could not make the breakthrough in fracking to get the gas to flow. Mr Mitchell spent ten years and $6m to crack the problem (surely the best-spent development money in the history of gas). Everyone, he said, told him he was just wasting his time and money.
—? The Economist, July 2012 [4]
BornGeorge Phydias Mitchell
May 21, 1919
Galveston, Texas, U.S. | DiedJuly 26, 2013 (aged 94)
Tremont House, Galveston, Texas, U.S. | Residence| Galveston, Texas, U.S. | Nationality| American | Alma mater| Texas A&M University | Occupation| Founder of Mitchell Energy & Development Corp.; philanthropist | Years active| 1950s–1990s | Known for| Hydraulic fracturing pioneer, developer of The Woodlands, Galveston restoration, philanthropic support of sustainability | Net worth| $2 billion (2013) [1] | Spouse(s)| Cynthia Woods Mitchell | Website| Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation |
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