Investigative reporting and in-depth analysis about the effects of fracking.
In his most powerful investigation to date, award-winning journalist Walter M. Brasch digs into the natural gas industry and extracts the truth about fracking. Hydraulic horizontal fracturing, better known as fracking, is the process of injecting as much as seven million gallons of water, proppants (like silica sand), and toxins into the earth to fracture the shale and extract methane.
Dr. Brasch acknowledges that the engineering to create fracking may be one of the most significant works of engineering in the late twentieth century. Politicians want natural gas drillers to come into their states, primarily because of the numbers of well-paying jobs the industry create and the lower costs of natural gas to the consumer.
Dr. Brasch investigates those claims, and provides an extensive look at the money trail between the industry and the politicians’ campaign receipts. Combining scientific evidence, extensive interviews with those affected by fracking throughout the country, and gas field workers, he concludes that errors made by the natural gas industry as well as the process itself have caused significant public health and the environmental problems that also affect agriculture, wildlife, and livestock.
A book of nature inspired poems and essays, written from the heart and soul of a life-long nature, animal, and wilderness lover, and dedicated to today’s children - Earth's only hope for a better tomorrow.
This book won 'The Poetry Category'
Explore the mystery of how nature makes unexpected gifts of creative wonders to an unsuspecting caregiver one late night and early morning in southeastern Georgia, USA.
