Hydrofracking /Alex Prud'homme.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; CONTENTS; GLOSSARY; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; PREFACE: WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK; INTRODUCTION: A TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY BONANZA; Part I: Hydrofracking: What, How, and Where?; 1 Energy in Context: A Fossil Fuel Primer; What Are Fossil Fuels?; What Is Coal?; What Are Oil and Gasoline?; What Is Natural Gas?; Why Is Natural Gas Called a "Bridge Fuel"?; What Are "Unconventional" Fuels?; What Is Shale Gas?; What Is Tight Gas?; What Is Sour Gas?; What Is Shale Oil?; What Is Oil Shale?; What Are Tar Sands?; What Is Coal Bed Methane?; What Is Coal Gasification?

What Is Synfuel?2 What; So What Is Hydrofracking, and Why Has It Become So Central to the Energy Landscape?; What Is Hydrofracking Used For?; What Is the History of Hydrofracking?; Who Was the Determined Tinkerer?; 3 How; How Do We Hydrofracture a Well?; How Do Horizontal Wells Differ from Vertical Wells?; What Are Hydrofracking Fluids?; 4 Where; What Are Shale Plays, and Where Are the Major Shale Plays in the United States?; Where Is Hydrofracking Restricted?; Is Hydrofracking Taking Place outside of the United States?; Part II: Hydrofracking: The Debate; 5 The Case for Hydrofracking

Who Benefits?What Is the Impact of Shale Oil and Gas on the US Economy?; How Many Jobs Does Hydrofracking Create?; How Has Supply Affected the Price of Natural Gas?; How Has Cheap Gas Impacted the Petrochemical Industry?; How Have Chemical Companies Been Affected by Natural Gas Prices?; What Is the "Halo Effect" of Gas Prices on Other Industries?; What Are the Nonindustrial Benefits of Hydrofracking?; How Has the Natural Gas Bonanza Affected Foreign Investment in the United States?; How Do New Shale-Gas Supplies Affect the Global Energy Market?; How Will This Affect Transportation?

What Impact Has Hydrofracking Had on Water Supplies?What Is the Halliburton Loophole, and How Do Drillers Respond to the Charge That It Conceals the Chemicals Used in Hydrofracking?; How Has Hydrofracking Affected Global Warming?; 6 The Case against Hydrofracking; What Questions about Hydrofracking Need to Be Asked and Answered, According to Opponents?; What Are the Biggest Concerns in Terms of Water Supplies?; Does Fracking Deplete Aquifers?; Does Hydrofracking Contaminate Groundwater?; How Well Regulated Is Groundwater?; What Is Methane Migration?

Are the Chemicals in Hydrofracking Fluids Harmful?How Is Flowback Disposed of?; Can Flowback Be Radioactive?; What Are Injection Wells?; Does Hydrofracking Cause Earthquakes?; What Are "Fugitive Emissions"?; What Are the Consequences of Fugitive Emissions?; Why Are Reports about Health Impacts Mostly Anecdotal?; Is Anyone Studying How Hydrofracking Impacts Animal and Human Health?; Can the Gap between Hydrofracking's Proponents and Opponents Be Bridged?; Part III: Hydrofracking: Today and Tomorrow; 7 The Future of Fracking; How Much Gas and Oil Is There in American Shale Deposits?

How Political Has Hydrofracking Become?

Constantly in the news and the subject of much public debate, fracking, as it is known for short, is one of the most promising yet controversial methods of extracting natural gas and oil. Today, 90 percent of natural gas wells use fracking. Though highly effective, the process-which fractures rock with pressurized fluid-has been criticized for polluting land, air, and water, and endangering human health. A timely addition to Oxford's What Everyone Needs to Know series, Hydrofracking tackles this contentious topic, exploring both sides of the debate and providing a clear guide to the science un.

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