Naturally Noxious: Misplaced Faith in Appalachian Natural Gas Industry / Sean O'Leary

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🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Chuck Mertz talks with Sean O'Leary about his writing for the Ohio River Valley Institute on the impact of the natural gas industry on Appalachian Americans. Also including this week's Hangover Cure, Rotten History, and Introducing this week's Question from Hell. Featuring a first announcement of musical artists performing at This Is Hell's listener appreciation party on September 17th, 2022. Sean O’Leary is senior researcher of energy and petrochemicals at the ORVI and is a native of Wheeling, WV. He has written about coal, natural gas, and their role in the economies of Appalachia in a book, a newspaper column, and blog titled, “The State of My State”. Previously, Sean served as communications director at the NW Energy Coalition in Seattle, Washington.

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1:56.3	natural gas all sounded fantastic it was said to be cleaner burning than gasoline or
2:01.8	coal the extraction of which was not as destructive to the environment.
2:06.0	Natural gas and its extraction would not contribute to climate change like other fossil fuels have done and continue
2:12.0	to do. The new energy source would provide jobs for
2:15.3	Appalachian and Russ-Sbelt workers who had lost their employment. The local economies
2:21.6	that were suffering since the decline of manufacturing in the advent of free trade politics would see huge improvements due to natural gas extraction.
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