Hydrofracking Update

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 26, 2011

Roger Anderson, senior research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, discusses the U.S. Geological Survey's updates estimates of how much natural gas is available in the Marcellus Shale. Glenn Coin, staff reporter for The Post-Standard, the newspaper out of Syracuse in Central New York, talks about the attitudes toward hydrofracking in some areas of Upstate New York where local governments are piecing together local bans and limits on fracking. 

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