{"product_id":"slick-water-fracking-and-one-insiders-stand-against-the-worlds-most-powerful-industry-hardcover","title":"Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Most Powerful Industry - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Nikiforuk\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing -- \"fracking\" -- as a panacea, with slick promises of energy independence, greenhouse gas reductions, and benefits to local economies. Yet the controversial technology, which blasts massive volumes of fluids, sand, and chemicals into rock and coal formations, has sparked huge public protests. \u003ci\u003eSlick Water\u003c\/i\u003e tells the shocking, inspiring story of one woman's stand to hold government and industry accountable for the damage fracking leaves in its wake. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter energy giant Encana secretly fracked hundreds of gas wells around her home and her well water turned to a flammable broth, Jessica Ernst started asking questions. When she put forward evidence that Encana had violated laws by fracturing the community's drinking water aquifer, Ernst was falsely tagged as a bomb-making terrorist and visited by the government's anti-terrorism squad. Frightened but undaunted, she uncovered a startling history of liability, fraud, and intimidation, along with a willful denial of widespread groundwater contamination. Jessica Ernst's remarkable story raises dramatic questions about the role of Big Oil in government, society's obsession with rapidly depleting supplies of unconventional oil and gas, and the future of civil society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Nikiforuk\u003c\/b\u003e is a leading investigative journalist who has been writing about the oil and gas industry for more than two decades. He was one of the first journalists in North America to document the impacts of hydraulic fracturing on rural communities. He is the author of the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eEmpire of the Beetle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Energy of Slaves\u003c\/i\u003e, and the bestseller \u003ci\u003eTar Sands\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. His book \u003ci\u003eSaboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Oil\u003c\/i\u003e was the winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.6 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42165906276487,"sku":"9781771640763","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/4b7c268a19df042372f8bcba4b6308e2.webp?v=1733317059","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/slick-water-fracking-and-one-insiders-stand-against-the-worlds-most-powerful-industry-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}