Banking on Shale Gas To Preserve Wetlands

摘要

Flanked by drilling rigs and pipelines, many of the wetlands feeding into the Sabine River in East Texas have been damaged by energy companies trying to extract gas from the Haynesville/ Bossier Shale formation. That destruction is an opportunity for a Houston company called Mitigation Solutions USA, which buys and restores damaged marshes, swamps, and bayous. "Demand's strong," says Terry McKenzie, the company's president. "Luckily, in Texas we have the luxury of oil and gas."