Campaigners' anger over agency's shale gas report

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has infuriated environmentalists with a report on what it calls the "golden age" of gas.

The summary says gas use could grow more than 50% by 2035 if local problems with shale extraction can be overcome.
Only in the last paragraph does it say this would be inconsistent with a global temperature rise of 2C.
And it does not warn the boom could lead to a potentially devastating 3.5C rise until page 91 of the full report.
Critics complain that most policy makers won't get that far and say the IEA should not be celebrating any fossil fuel golden age.
Tony Bosworth, of Friends of the Earth, told BBC News: "The 'golden age' for gas risks leading to temperature rises that will be catastrophic," he said.
"If we're talking about golden rules, we need one to protect the world's climate."
"The IEA should be making that top priority not hyping the prospects for the gas industry. If we get a boom in gas that'll starve investment from the clean energy sources we really need."
Full disclosure The report is designed to codify rules for governments in many countries coping with a welter of applications to drill for coal bed methane or use fracking to liberate shale gas or other tight (trapped) gas.
t backs many demands from environmentalists, including a stipulation that fracking firms must use less water; measure and disclose data on water use, waste water, methane and other emissions; solve air pollution problems; and minimise leakage of methane.
Importantly, it demands that firms should face full, mandatory disclosure of the chemicals in the fracking process - something that drillers in the US have resisted under commercial confidentiality. The UK Environment Agency has already announced that it will require disclosure of fracking fluids.
The report urges governments worldwide to ensure that the expected growth in gas is matched by a growth in cash and political support for regulators.