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Return of the Jedi / Michael C. Lynch, President, Strategic Energy &#38; Economic Research, Inc., IAEE Energy blog, 29/06/2011http://blog.iaee.org/?p=2307The  New York Times has published two amazing front-page articles on shale  gas, which raise a number of issues about the prospects for the  resource, suggesting that the reserves and profitability are vastly  overstated.  A careful reading of the article, however, suggests that it  is more smoke than fire, and that most of the concerns are due to  naivete and poor analysis rather than serious problems...