Is it Safe to Be Cautious About Marcellus Shale Development?
David Mandelbaum of GT's Philadelphia office is a thoughtful and provocative commentator. His first in a planned monthly series of environmental law columns for The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly © appeared on July 6, and is titled "Drill, Baby, Drill?" (See 33 Pa. L. Weekly 655.) In his column, David raises questions we've explored on this Blog in some depth: Is going slow or imposing a moratorium for new energy resources like unconventional natural gas actually a good idea? Does application of the "precautionary principle" make sense when the existing energy infrastructure relying primarily on coal and oil may be less sustainable environmentally or geopolitically? His answers might surprise you. Read the column here.
