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A golden age for gas – but not in Europe / Pierre Noël, EU Energy Policy blog, 21/03/2012http://www.energypolicyblog.com/2012/03/21/a-golden-age-for-gas-but-not-in-europe/Forget the gloom about fossil fuels. True, oil is scarce; granted, coal is dirty – but natural gas is clean and plentiful. In terms of local air pollution, gas burns very cleanly indeed. In terms of greenhouse gases it emits half what coal does, per KWh generated. Unlike oil, or even coal, the world’s gas reserves are expanding dramatically. The coming decades could be a golden age for natural gas, as the International Energy Agency explored in a recent report by this title. However, it is doubtful that Europe will share in this new gas era...