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[2019]
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"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by...
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[2016].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Natural gas may heat our homes and help us cook, but rarely do people consider where it comes from-or even what it's made of. Incredibly, this gaseous mix of mostly methane and ethane didn't become a major source of the world's energy until the 1960s. It was thought to be an inconsequential by-product of oil production. There's much to learn about natural gas in this beneficial book, which focuses on how the gas is formed as well as examines how it's...
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Pub. Date
2016
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Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesnt count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brothers skepticism or the paranoia...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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For millions of people with a direct stake in shale gas exploration in the Marcellus or any number of other emerging shale resources in the United States and worldwide, or for those concerned about the global energy outlook, "Under the Surface" offers a look at the issues -- Publisher description.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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"Fracking has become a four-letter word to environmentalists. But most people don't know what it means. In his ... book, Sernovitz explains [what he sees as] the reality of fracking: what it is, how it can be made safer, and how the oil business works. He also tells the bigger story. Fracking was just one part of a shale revolution that shocked our assumptions about fueling America's future. The revolution has transformed the world with consequences...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"As different as we all are in situations, needs, and views, we hold the world in common. In this brilliant ethnography, Colin Jerolmack vividly highlights this basic environmental conundrum with his compelling account of the local conflicts over fracking in the countryside around Williamsport, Pennsylvania." --
"A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy. Shale gas extraction--commonly known as fracking--is...
13) Fracking
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Series
Pub. Date
2014
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Explains what fracking is and how it works, and discusses its impact on the environment.
14) Blowout
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by...
16) Fracking
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Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
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Discusses the benefits and drawbacks of fracking.
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2017.
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Bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town and the conflicting forces at its heart--hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. Told through a cast of characters whose...
19) The real cost of fracking: how America's shale gas boom is threatening our families, pets, and food
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Presents a cautionary assessment of the consequences of hydraulic fracturing that documents numerous cases of drilling-site contamination linked to human and animal illnesses.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by...