In what is being cast as an effort to promote global energy security, the Obama administration is schooling governments from four continents on the development of shale gas resources. The State Department this week is holding its first multilateral meetings under the new Global Shale Gas Initiative to help other countries develop a resource that has boomed in the United States in recent years. The only other nation to start work on shale gas is Poland, which is drilling exploratory wells. Go to story #1