The Real Cost of Fracking : How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food (Hardcover)

from CatsandCherryPie

The "Real Cost of Fracking" by Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald is an outstanding work on the toll that our dependence on fossil fuel has had on the health of people, animals and the environment. As a New Yorker living over the Utica shale, I found the stories of the people affected by the fr...

from doomjesse

As someone who lives near a future fracking area, I wanted to know as much as I could about fracking. With movies like "Gasland" out I already knew there were issues, but I wanted to understand what they were on a more mundane basis. After all not everybody can light their tap water on fire, but ...

from TimFerris

I gave this to my wife to read first. She has been following the repercussions of hydraulic fracturing for many years. The insights she is sharing with me as she reads this book are incredible. I am beginning to realize the extent to which we have been sold out by our corporations and our governm...

from Colby_Glass

This was a heartbreaking book to read, but essential. It tells the stories of American families accosted--really invaded--by multinational corporations who are uninterested in human beings or morals and with no allegiance to our country. They poison the environment, in the process making people s...

from Muir_Alex

I enjoyed this book because it serves as a good review of the negative aspects of fracking, and because it also provides a decent background on the process of high-pressure, high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing (the technical name for the process used to extract natural gas from shale). Th...