The Marcellus Shale’s vast underground reservoir of natural gas doesn’t quite stretch into Massachusetts from Pennsylvania and New York. But the state does have the Hartford Basin, essentially tracking the Connecticut River Valley on a north-south axis through Massachusetts and Connecticut; the gas resources there are unknown and believed to be limited at best, writes Jon Chesto in Boston Business Journal.
Still, that hasn’t stopped environmental activists, particularly in the western Massachusetts communities that might be affected, from raising a hue and cry about the possibility of hydraulic fracturing, writes Chesto.
