Bibliograph

Slick water, fracking and one insider's stand against the world's most powerful industry, Andrew Nikiforuk

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Slick water, fracking and one insider's stand against the world's most powerful industry, Andrew Nikiforuk

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Slick water

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

914400273

Responsibility statement

Andrew Nikiforuk

Sub title

fracking and one insider's stand against the world's most powerful industry

Summary

"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 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"--Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The dress for less explosion -- This much you should know -- Fracking Oildorado -- Before shale : coal -- A revolution under Rosebud -- Criminal threats -- Banished -- Keys to the bank -- Fingerprints and liabilities -- The police come calling -- Kafka's law -- The road of the dishes -- "No duty of care" -- The sisters of Jessica Ernst -- Epilogue: Completions

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