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Can business address environment issues and sustain shale gas ‘revolution’? /  Ben Heineman, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Power &#38; Policy, 22/08/2011http://www.powerandpolicy.com/2011/08/22/can-business-address-environment-issues-and-sustain-shale-gas-revolution/?(Note: a longer version of this article first appeared on TheAtlantic.com)The boom in natural gas extracted from shale rock through new technology holds out great transformative promise for the future:  for consumers in lowering energy costs, for workers in creating domestic jobs, for the environment as a substitute for coal, for  balance of trade as we may export more than we import and for energy security as we become less dependent on foreign oil and gas and reduce the influence of nations like Iran, Russia and Venezuela...