Ammonia? One cannot attend an anti-fracking event without seeing one of those simplistic, moralizing “Water Is Life” signs ignoring the reality we can’t live on water alone either. Nick Grealy offers some much needed perspective on other things that make for life these days – things made with natural gas, things like ammonia.

As gas opponents repeat the simple mantra “keep all fossil fuels in the ground”, few of us realize the world fertilizer industry has been putting natural gas back in the ground for almost a hundred years. In the UK and North America, one third of gas goes towards electricity production, one third to heat, and one third to industrial processes, the greatest amount of which goes towards fertilizer production.

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