CSPAN3 March 1, 2012
department of energy invested in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing at a time when industry wasn't really interested in that. when interested began to pick it up in a real way, the u.s. government got out of that. now, sips that time, it's been the story where then the development of shale gas and shale oil has been quite remarkable in the last half dozen years. there's also active environmental concerns. there are reports on future admissions, things of that nature. so the research we're now going to do in the department of energy and usgs, all right, first, what's really ...