The real cost of fracking : how America's shale gas boom is threatening our families, pets, and food / Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald ; foreword by Sandra Steingraber.
TITLE:
The real cost of fracking : how America's shale gas boom is threatening our families, pets, and food / Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald ; foreword by Sandra Steingraber.
Alternate Title:
Fracking : how America's shale-gas boom is threatening our families, pets, and food
Publication Date:
2014
Publication Information:
Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press,
Physical Description:
xiii, 230 p.
Additional Contributors:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-216) and index.
Summary:
Fracking -- the extraction of natural gas by hydraulic fracturing -- is being touted as the answer to energy independence and a fix for a flagging economy. Drilling companies assure us that the process is safe, politicians push through drilling legislation without a serious public-health debate, and those who speak out are marginalized, their silence purchased by gas companies and their warnings about the dangers of fracking stifled.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780807084939
