All politics is local, the old saying goes, and that is particularly true with energy. Energy has become a major issue in the US elections, and how voters perceive energy issues is often influenced by the infrastructure they see around them.

As the US economy continues to measure the impacts of the shale gas and oil boom, new investments are being made in everything from pipelines to transportation fueled by natural gas to proposed data centers lying atop burgeoning gas fields. The transformational effects of the investments on local economies is obvious, but the debate over everything from water quality to truck traffic continues to grow in volume too. Keep reading →