Fuel Fix: In bitter energy debate, nobody wins

When environmentalists and oil and gas industry supporters go to extremes, it’s the American worker who loses, according a report by the Harvard Business School and the Boston Consulting Group.

A toxic discourse on energy — disconnected from facts and polarized both by environmentalists who exaggerate risks and pro-industry groups who ignore legitimate concerns — is confusing the public and jeopardizing the much-needed economic benefits responsible development of unconventional resources could bring the U.S., authors said.

“You have people on the extremes holding people back from compromising,” said David Gee, partner at the Boston Consulting Group and an author of the report. “It’s symptomatic of a lot of the gridlock in the broader country.”

And despite the vitriol on both sides, neither group is winning, Gee said.

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