Video merely introduces the pros and cons of natural gas and is not intended to present deep scientific concepts. This same web page offers a series of video interviews with energy experts across industry and government, representing researchers/scientists, business owners/CEOs, and governments officials.
Pros and cons of fracking are introduced in the video.
Comments from expert scientist:
Scientific strengths:
The resource provides an extremely accurate presentation of the current state for natural gas in the energy scenario.
The main different uses of natural gas are presented, as well as the main sources, and challenges.
Concerns:
Some sentences in the first video in the resource are probably a bit too optimistic about natural gas. For example, it is said that natural gas is "cheap, abundant, and would help us reduce our carbon emissions". Although technically true (if compared to coal), there are other energy sources (wind for example) which are cheaper, and would definitely reduce carbon emissions in a much larger measure.
As correctly stated in the "The fossil fuel environmentalists love to love" video, natural gas is not clean enough to provide the carbon reduction that is foreseen by many of the international climate agreements.
The message which should be conveyed is that natural gas is cleanER than coal, but still not as clean as renewables.
