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Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale by Tom Wilber
4.0
Under the Surface is your best bet at learning as much as you can about the Marcellus shale gas development of the past decade in ~220 pages, from everything you wanted to know, to everything you didn't, to things you didn't even imagine you would have wanted or not wanted to know.
Wilber's sources and experiences are comprehensive and come from both advocates and opponents of the natural gas industry. He weaves these all together to paint a picture of what the state of "energy independence development" looks like in the Northeast, and likely in other places where hydraulic fracturing has been put into effect (the West, the South, and coming to a community near you). In many ways, he leaves it to you to form an opinion on the controversial issue, and he doesn't leave out one thing when it comes to depicting the idea of wealth beyond comprehension that landowners were offered or the suffering at the exploitative hands of the industry, whether that means lack of access to clean water, home air contamination, or even exploding houses and wells.
Wilber's sources and experiences are comprehensive and come from both advocates and opponents of the natural gas industry. He weaves these all together to paint a picture of what the state of "energy independence development" looks like in the Northeast, and likely in other places where hydraulic fracturing has been put into effect (the West, the South, and coming to a community near you). In many ways, he leaves it to you to form an opinion on the controversial issue, and he doesn't leave out one thing when it comes to depicting the idea of wealth beyond comprehension that landowners were offered or the suffering at the exploitative hands of the industry, whether that means lack of access to clean water, home air contamination, or even exploding houses and wells.