The Obama and Romney campaigns agree on the necessity of mining America's energy resources, but they differ on exactly how to do it.
The for energy exploration that equally favors wind, solar, and fossil fuels. Governor Romney says the president only likes "sources of energy that come above the ground, ."
In this hour of BURN, host Alex Chadwick will parse the energy policies of the Democratic and presidential nominees and examine how the outcome of November's election might shape the country's energy future.
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BURN also follows a referendum initiative in Michigan to put a constitutionally mandated 25 percent renewable energy standard on the November 6 general election ballot. The proposal would require Michigan energy providers to produce a quarter of their electricity from sources such as wind and solar.
And BURN travels to Pennsylvania's natural gas-rich "Marcellus Shale" region that informs the national controversy. The Marcellus Shale is a vast, underground repository of natural gas that runs beneath parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia. The extraction of that fossil fuel has helped resuscitate Pennsylvania's economy, providing residents with jobs and lucrative mineral leases.
Some argue that hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") -- the injection underground of vast quantities of water and chemicals to mine the natural gas -- . All this is the backdrop to BURN's story, which examines the impact natural gas exploration has had on Pennsylvania.
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