Review Of Shale Gas: The Promise and the Peril

Shale Gas: The Promise and the Peril is the ideal book for activists who are against fracking. The e-book presents fracking in easy-to understand terms (with the technical terms listed in a sidebar) so, if you're an activist who needs to make a point at a meeting, you can use terms your audience will understand and you won't become flustered when gas company representatives start using technical terms to counter your arguments.

Snake Oil: How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future Richard Heinberg

by Richard Heinberg

The rapid spread of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") has temporarily boosted US natural gas and oil production... and sparked a massive environmental backlash in communities across the country. The fossil fuel industry is trying to sell fracking as the biggest energy development of the century, with slick promises of American energy independence and benefits to local economies.

SNAKE OIL casts a critical eye on the oil-industry hype that has hijacked America's energy conversation. This is the first book to look at fracking from both economic and environmental perspectives, informed by the most thorough analysis of shale gas and oil drilling data ever undertaken. Is fracking the miracle cure-all to our energy ills, or a costly distraction from the necessary work of reducing our fossil fuel dependence?

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Those who think fracked gas is a panacea for our energy future would do well to read this cautionary account--it has an undeniable whiff of reality about it.