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Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider´s Stand against the World´s Most Powerful Industry
Andrew Nikiforuk
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Description for Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider´s Stand against the World´s Most Powerful Industry
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; KNBP; RNFY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 225 x 28. Weight in Grams: 576.
The fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing -- fracking -- as a panacea, with slick promises of energy independence, greenhouse gas reductions, and benefits to local economies. Yet the controversial technology, which blasts massive volumes of fluids, sand, and chemicals into rock and coal formations, has sparked huge public protests. Slick Water tells the shocking, inspiring story of one woman's stand to hold government and industry accountable for the damage fracking leaves in its wake. After energy giant Encana secretly fracked hundreds of gas wells around her home and her well water turned ... Read more
The fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing -- fracking -- as a panacea, with slick promises of energy independence, greenhouse gas reductions, and benefits to local economies. Yet the controversial technology, which blasts massive volumes of fluids, sand, and chemicals into rock and coal formations, has sparked huge public protests. Slick Water tells the shocking, inspiring story of one woman's stand to hold government and industry accountable for the damage fracking leaves in its wake. After energy giant Encana secretly fracked hundreds of gas wells around her home and her well water turned ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Greystone Books,Canada
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
589g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9781771640763
SKU
V9781771640763
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99-15
About Andrew Nikiforuk
Andrew Nikiforuk is a leading investigative journalist who has been writing about the oil and gas industry for more than two decades. He was one of the first journalists in North America to document the impacts of hydraulic fracturing on rural communities. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Empire of the Beetle, The Energy of Slaves, and the ... Read more
Reviews for Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider´s Stand against the World´s Most Powerful Industry
meticulously researched...a deft history of fracking from the 1850s (when torpedoes and nitroglycerin were used) through the 1960s (nuclear explosions) to modern hydraulic fracturing.
Nature Magazine Slick Water is a true-life noir filled with corruption, incompetence, and, ultimately, courage. It is a deeply informative, disturbing, and important book.
Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction Andrew Nikiforuk crafts ... Read more
Nature Magazine Slick Water is a true-life noir filled with corruption, incompetence, and, ultimately, courage. It is a deeply informative, disturbing, and important book.
Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction Andrew Nikiforuk crafts ... Read more