
Snake oil : how fracking's false promise of plenty imperils our future / Richard Heinberg.
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Summary:
Examines "fracking from both economic and environmental perspectives, informed by ... analysis of shale gas and oil drilling data"--Page 4 of cover.Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Age Hold Protection | Active/Create Date | Status | Due Date |
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Hood River County Library | 622.3381 HEI 2013 (Text) | 33892100478362 | Adult Non-Fiction | Book | None | 11/07/2017 | Available | - |
Record details
- ISBN: 9780976751090
- ISBN: 0976751097
- Physical Description: 151 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Santa Rosa, CA : Post Carbon Institute, [2013]
- Copyright: ©2013
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [127]-144). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: 1. This is What Peak Oil Looks Like -- Peak Oil: What the Fuss Is About -- Okay, When? -- It Gets Worse -- Making Sense of History as We Live It -- Depletionist Economics -- 2. Technology to the Rescue -- A Brief History of Fracking -- How to Frack a Shale Gas (or Tight Oil) Well -- The Shale Gas Boom, Play by Play -- Tight Oil by the Numbers -- The Claims Rush -- 3.A Treadmill to Hell -- The Boom That Fizzled -- Shale Gas: The Evidence Is In -- Bakken Boom, Bakken Bust -- Will the Rest of the World Get Fracked? -- Why Do Official Agencies So Often Get It Wrong? -- The Bottom Line on Fracking's Potential to Revolutionize Oil and Gas Production -- 4. Fracking Wars, Fracking Casualties -- Water -- Air -- Land -- Climate -- 5. The Economics of Fracking: Who Benefits? -- Communities -- The Nation -- The Oil and Gas Industry -- Wall Street -- 6. Energy Reality -- Other Unconventional Hydrocarbons -- Geology versus Technology -- Renewable Energy -- Energy scenarios -- a mirage distracts us from hydrocarbon rehab. |
Summary, etc.: | Examines "fracking from both economic and environmental perspectives, informed by ... analysis of shale gas and oil drilling data"--Page 4 of cover. |
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