If approved and built, it looks like the United State is failing to take climate change seriously by virtually guaranteeing the massive Canadian oil sands reserved are exploited.
It also reduces Europe's energy security [because Europe has few shale gas reserves to exploit, unlike the US and Asia].
The gas did throw the agonized defenders into chaotic flight; but the German high command, having been disappointed by the new weapon's performance under adverse conditions in Poland earlier in the year, had failed to provide adequate reserves to exploit its unforeseen success.
If our Western clients and consumers would like to get enough gas on time, they need to understand we need cash to maintain the reserves and exploit the fields.
But, with almost perfect irony, there were no reserves to exploit the hole in the German line and move into the flat, open country beyond the ridge where maneuver was possible.
The Germans were unprepared for the level of their success and lacked sufficient reserves to exploit the opening.
This prompted the giant oil firms, which had already developed significant footholds in Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela, to scour the global South in search of new reserves to exploit -- a saga told with great gusto in Daniel Yergin's epic history of the oil industry, The Prize.
And Jenny Banks from WWF-UK said: "It's simply impossible to keep global warming below 2C and burn all known fossil fuel reserves – let alone exploit unconventional reserves like shale gas.
It is the centre of the Iraq oil and gas industry, and there are massive reserves to be exploited.
On Tuesday we launched the fourth in our series on carbon bombs: the world's biggest fossil fuel reserves, that if exploited will take us significantly closer to a 2C rise in global temperatures.
