Slick water : fracking and one insider's stand against the world's most powerful industry
Nikiforuk, Andrew, 1955-2015
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Slick Water tells the shocking, inspiring story of one woman's stand to hold government and industry accountable for the damage fracking leaves in its wake. After 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 wilful 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 mining low-grade oil and gas formations, and the future of democracy.
Main title:
Imprint:
Vancouver ; Berkeley : David Suzuki Institute / Greystone Books, 2015.
Collation:
ix, 350 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Co-published by: David Suzuki Institute.Includes bibliographic references and index.
Contents:
The dress for less explosion -- This much you should know -- Fracking Oildorado -- Before shale : coal -- A revolution under Rosebud -- Criminal threats -- Banished -- Keys to the bank -- Fingerprints and liabilities -- The police come calling -- Kafka's law -- The road of the dishes -- "No duty of care" -- The sisters of Jessica Ernst -- Epilogue: Completions.
ISBN:
9781771640763
Dewey class:
333.823314097123333.823314
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
267256
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Environment | 333.823314 NIK | Available |