The observation was one of the few cautionary notes during the Bipartisan Policy Center's otherwise upbeat conference on the US shale gas boom's implications for the economy, trade, and geopolitics. That made it all the more dramatic. During the July 25 conference's second panel, participants were discussing whether market opportunities would let the US export significant amounts of LNG. Then Kenneth B. Medlock, who is the energy and resource economics fellow at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, suggested public concerns about unconventional gas production's possible hazards could have a significant adverse impact.
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机译：该观察是两党政策中心在其他方面关于美国页岩气繁荣对经济，贸易和地缘政治影响的乐观会议期间的少数警告提示之一。这使它变得更加引人注目。在7月25日会议的第二小组会议上，与会人员正在讨论市场机会是否会让美国出口大量液化天然气。赖斯大学詹姆斯·贝克三世公共政策研究所的能源和资源经济学研究员肯尼斯·B·梅德洛克（Kenneth B. Medlock）建议公众关注非常规天然气生产的潜在危害可能产生重大不利影响。
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