Fracking’s broken promise to PA: electricity was supposed to cost less but it doesn’t

Nearly 60% of Pennsylvania’s electricity is produced by natural gas power plants using gas fracked from the Marcellus shale. If Pennsylvania is producing so much more natural gas as a result of fracking, why are prices going up? Why aren’t its residents benefiting more from the resource beneath their feet? Inside Climate News reporters Kiley Bense and Dan Gearino, have taken a deep dive into this question. Read their report below.

Fracking’s Broken Promise to Pennsylvania was created by Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment andwas reprinted Sept. 23 in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star independent online state news service. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Daniel Foster.