The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (898 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00J7RKBWO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award for his work, Gold has traveled along the pipelines and into the hubs of this country's energy infrastructure; he has visited frack sites from Texas to North Dakota; and he has conducted thousands of interviews with engineers and wildcatters, CEOs and roughnecks, environmentalists and politicians. It has upended the business models of energy companies around the globe, and it has started to change geopolitics and global energy markets in profound ways. 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 energy come from to power our world - and what price will we have to pay for it?. He has also sifted through reams of engineering reports, lawsuit transcripts, and financial filings. Fracking has vociferous critics and fervent defenders, but the debate between these camps has obscured the actual story: Fracking has become a fixture of the American landscape and the global economy. Russell Gold, a brilliant and dogged investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal, has spent more than a decade reporting on one of the biggest stories of our time: the spectacular, world-changing rise of "fracking". The result is an essential audiobook - a commanding piece of journalism, an astoundin
A pretty even handed analysis of fracking and its effects Steven Peterson Want to get an accessible introduction to "fracking" (short for hydraulic fracturing)? This should do nicely. This is not a technical tome--far from it. It is a well written book aimed at a general audience. If you want a solid scientific analysis, this is not the book for you. But, if you wish to get a sense of what is at stake, this would be quite useful.The author had family land in Pennsylvania in the Marcellus Shale regio. Fracking truth Amazon Customer I enjoyed this book. It accomplished what I set out for which was a better understanding of modern fracking. The author gave a good inside perspective of how his parent interacted with the drilling companies. The book did dry up towards the end and the last chapters dragged and blurred together. Again the book gave me exactly what I was looking for with the education on fracking and the industry.. "Exhaustively researched and very well written" according to Gillian Petrie. Very thorough, extremely well researched and written, tremendously informative and very even handed about a controversial practice. Really opens your eyes to what goes on the the oil fields and some of the unregulated cowboy operators out there causing environmental and economic chaos.