TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FRACKING»
The term «fracking» is quite widely used and occupies the
27.381 position in our list of most widely used terms in the
English dictionary.
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10 QUOTES WITH «FRACKING»
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fracking.
In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.
Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe.
Environmentalists should like fracking for its relative cleanliness. But they don't. They have made a bugaboo out of the chemicals in fracking fluids, which supposedly can leach into groundwater sources. I'm convinced they're dead wrong. Ultimately, good technology with a cost advantage will win out over paranoia.
We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We have to vote climate change deniers and people who will create subsidies for the fossil fuel industry out of office. We have to protest when bad decisions are being made about fracking or tar sands.
How do we take the bad out of fracking? How do you contain the water? How do we make a profit out of that? Get there early.
Letting the greens dictate your energy choices, whether it's halting the XL Pipeline or fracking in New York, isn't just bad economics. It can also leave your rivals and enemies controlling your energy destiny.
Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.
Hydraulic fracking is very much a necessary part of the future of natural gas.
It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.
The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FRACKING»
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fracking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Under the Surface:
Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the ...
Under the Surface is the first book-length journalistic overview of shale gas development and the controversies surrounding it.
2
Fracking: America's Alternative Energy Revolution
Energy opportunities and challenges
3
The Boom: How
Fracking Ignited the American Energy ...
Gold tells the story of this once-obscure oilfield technology—a story with an incredible cast of tycoons and geologists, dreamers and drillers, speculators and skeptics, a story that answers a critical question of our time: Where will the ...
4
Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting With Disaster
Analysis of the environmental and public health effects of fracking. Includes extensive discussion of the social and political issues.
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Fracking: The Operations and Environmental Consequences of ...
This book presents both sides of a very controversial subject in today’s media: induced hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” It covers the technology and methods used in hydraulic fracturing in easy-to-understand language, for the ...
Michael D. Holloway, Oliver Rudd, 2013
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Hydraulic Fracturing (
Fracking): Procedures, Issues, and ...
Book contents, among others, include a concise explanation on: • Natural Gas (Conventional and Unconventional Gas) • Formation Preparation for Hydraulic Fracturing: Well Drilling Process, Well Completion (Perforation), Preferred Well ...
"At Issue: Fracking: Books in this anthology series focus a wide range of viewpoints onto a single controversial issue, providing in-depth discussions by leading advocates, a quick grounding in the issues, and a challenge to critical ...
C. Alexia Lane's first RMB Manifesto introduces readers to the practice of "fracking" and makes it clear that there is an urgent need for current policies to be reformed in order to alleviate ever-growing community, ecological and ...
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Gas Drilling and the
Fracking of a Marriage
A poetic, heartfelt, honest yet light-hearted memoir, Gas Drilling and the Fracking of a Marriage will strike a vein for anyone who has played weekend farmer or agonized over their role as steward to the earth's resources.
10
The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone
In The End of Country, journalist and area native Seamus McGraw opens a window on the battle for control of this land, revealing a conflict that pits petrodollar billionaires and the forces of corporate America against a band of locals ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FRACKING»
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fracking is used in the context of the following news items.
Ballot fight over fracking possible
Environmentalists and the energy industry have fought decisive battles over fracking in New York, Oklahoma and Texas, but the outcome is ... «Greeley Tribune, Jul 15»
California Has No Idea What's In Its Fracking Chemicals, Study Finds
During fracking, chemical-laced water is pumped at high pressure into shale rock formations that hold oil and gas deposits. Figuring out what to ... «ThinkProgress, Jul 15»
Oil executive: Illinois missing out on fracking benefits
MOUNT VERNON — Low oil prices and strict regulations have made Illinois undesirable for fracking, but at least one oil company is still ... «The Southern, Jul 15»
Fracking: Pennines residents mobilise to stop company drilling up to …
In the heart of the North Yorkshire countryside, the latest battle in the fracking war is well and truly under way. The gas company Third Energy ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
Even Further on Fracking
First, it was the governor of Oklahoma announcing that she recognizes that the multiple earthquakes occurring in the state are largely caused ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
Mercury News editorial: Fracking study demands phasing out of …
The independent scientific review of fracking techniques released last week by the California Council on Science and Technology demands the ... «San Jose Mercury News, Jul 15»
Fracking rigs 'could surround national parks' under Government plans
National parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty risk becoming surrounded by fracking rigs under Government plans to let energy ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Allegany Co. landowner suing state over fracking ban
“Early this year, I attempted to get permission from the state — before the state ban on fracking was decided — to either start the process to ... «Olean Times Herald, Jul 15»
Appeals court upholds Illinois fracking rules
An Illinois appeals court has upheld the state's rules for the high-volume oil and gas drilling technique known as fracking. The appellate court ... «The State Journal-Register, Jul 15»
Governors Say Operators Should Use Less Drinking Water For …
"By reusing wastewater from [fracking] in multiple rounds of drilling, industry can reduce its use of new drinking water. Only freshwater should ... «Natural Gas Intelligence, Jul 15»
