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Hydrofracked? One Man's Mystery Leads To A Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling (2000)

by Abrahm Lustgarten(Favorite Author)

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review 1: Im interested in the idea of Fracking and its impacts on the environment in a time where we need to be focusing on changing to renewable energy sources rather than finite ones.Once again it is the story of the 'small man' vs. the corporate machine and the battle to gain anything from it. It was quite disturbing to read about the problems experienced by the family involved at a variety of levels - health, economic etc. and how vunerable and unable to help themselves they felt.Definately one I will be recommendng my 6th Form pupils to read as part of thier energy supply issues module.
review 2: The book recounts the nightmarish experience of a man who finds his watersupply contaminated - most probably by fracking carried out in the vicinity. We then learn of all ... morethe possible negative consequences of fracking on the environment, and of how energy companies lobby hard to prevent environmental controls. The analysis is strongly one sided, and not particularly scientific, still it had the merit to push me to find out more about fracking. Nevertheless, unless you can borrow it (or get it as a freebie as I did) it contains no information that you could not find elsewhere, and I am not sure the sameinformation could not have conveyed in a much shorter book. less

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