Slick Water - Fracking and One Insider's Stand against the World's Most Powerful Industry (Hardcover)

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. "Fracking the Earth" tells the shocking, inspiring story of one woman's battle 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 to a flammable broth, Jessica Ernst started asking questions. When she put forward evidence that Encana had violated laws by fracturing the community's drinking water aquifer, Ernst was falsely tagged as a bomb-making terrorist and visited by the government's anti-terrorism squad. Frightened but undaunted, she uncovered a startling history of liability, fraud, and intimidation, along with a willful denial of widespread groundwater contamination. Jessica Ernst's remarkable story raises dramatic questions about the role of Big Oil in government, society's obsession with rapidly depleting supplies of unconventional oil and gas, and the future of civil society.

General

Imprint:	Greystone Books,Canada
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	David Suzuki Institute
Release date:	October 2015
First published:	October 2014
Authors:	Andrew Nikiforuk
Dimensions:	215 x 139 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-77164-076-3
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Energy industries & utilities > Petroleum & oil industries Promotions
LSN:	1-77164-076-6
Barcode:	9781771640763

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