<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2013/pro-fracking-report-funded-by-gas-industry/">http://ecowatch.com/2013/pro-fracking-report-funded-by-gas-industry/</a><br><div><div class="post-304772 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-energy category-fracking-2 singlepost newhead" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; max-width: 740px; "><div class="postwrap ui-widget-content" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; 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padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 21px; font-size: 15px; text-align: left !important; ">By Denise Robbins</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 21px; font-size: 15px; text-align: left !important; "><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2013/pro-fracking-report-funded-by-gas-industry/money-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-304819" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(245, 130, 33) !important; "><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-304819" alt="money" width="360" height="260" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-color: initial !important; float: right; " id="b18c5004-a1fb-41cc-b192-571a702e6ad9" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:CF518EF6-4FA2-49CC-B4CC-57E1097DE108"></a>Multiple mainstream media outlets have covered a <a href="http://www.ihs.com/images/Americas-New-Energy-Future-Mfg-Renaissance-Main-Report-Sept13.pdf" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(245, 130, 33) !important; ">new report</a> touting the economic benefits from <a href="http://ecowatch.com/p/energy/fracking-2/" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(245, 130, 33) !important; ">fracking</a>without disclosing the report’s industry funding.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 21px; font-size: 15px; text-align: left !important; ">The recently released study, <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">America’s New Energy Future: The Unconventional Oil & Gas Revolution and the U.S. Economy</em>, received widespread media attention on Thursday. The report, conducted by consulting group IHS CERA, was commissioned by multiple fossil fuel organizations that stand to benefit from growth in the oil and gas industry.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 21px; font-size: 15px; text-align: left !important; ">According to the report, the increase in unconventional oil and natural gas extraction has added an average of $1,200 in discretionary income to each U.S. household in 2012, and now supports 1.2 million jobs—projected to increase to 3.3 million by 2020. These figures are much larger than the findings of many previous economic studie</div></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>