September 8th 2014
The Fracking Truth. America’s energy revolution:the inside, untold story. Chris Faulkner
The Fracking Truth. America’s energy revolution:the inside, untold story. Chris Faulkner. 2014. ISBN 9780985070373. The author started in software and moved from control systems for oil & gas into starting an energy company that benefited form the advances in fracking technology. There are two sides to any story and he is taking the engineers role of presenting all the facts for you to make your own decisions. It is a very thorough and I for one appreciated the insights into the whole story.
Fracking is an 100% made in America oil and gas well completion technology that is on track to serve up Americas energy needs safely, for the foreseeable future at a reasonable price. This will finally free the US from being tied to Saudi Arabia and the volatile Middle East Increasing proven resources of gas in the US make it a distinct possibility of exporting gas to Europe, which will mitigate most threats from Russia against the EU. Also you will learn the background of the misleading comments and outright lies put forth by the Fox documentary called Gasland – which has fueled a complete misconception in the public media. These falsehoods have taken root as an often told story to become accepted by most with no questioning. Fracking works in North America because of the geography, infrastructure, skills and competence that is rarely found in other places.
The author shows that the oil & gas industry does a woeful job of telling its side of the story. In Canada we see that mishandling first hand with the Northern Gateway project, the Keystone pipeline and the oil sands. Like the ways that the politically astute environmental groups destroyed the West Coast timber industry for many years, similar groups are determined to do the same to resource extraction.
You will earn about the economics and environmental impacts of hydro, solar, coal, wood and wind energy projects. From the analysis it becomes apparent that the oil & gas sector will remain dominant for many many years, world wide.
Great cross country read in a concise, clear easy to read style.
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