The reading is a little hard going because there is a great deal of technical analysis but it receives a high grade for exposing fracking in all its horrors. It features a number of interviews with those victimized by the corporate fracking monsters and their allies in government and regulatory... ...more

This was a heartbreaking book to read, but essential. It tells the stories of American families accosted--really invaded--by multinational corporations who are uninterested in human beings or morals and with no allegiance to our country. They poison the environment, in the process making people s... ...more

Written by a veterinarian and a professor of molecular medicine at Cornell, this is a scathing attack on the "fracking" business that has taken over vast swaths of the Marcellus and Utica shale areas in Pennsylvania and New York, as well as several other areas of the country, particularly in the... ...more

In 2012, veterinarian Michelle Bamberger and Cornell University professor of molecular medicine Robert Oswald published their study, “Impacts of Gas Drilling on Human and Animal Health.” Their report documented cases studies with animal owners in Colorado, Louisiana, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,... ...more

Shale gas drilling and the many faces of interdependence

“The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food,” by Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald, got me thinking about interdependence, the reality that we are all connected through myriad threa... ...more

Pretty clear who owns the PADER from reading this book! It's amazing how complicit our regulatory people are in car ringing out the orders from big corporate owned American government! Where has the integrity and simply to do the right gone!
Our government is not for the majority but the minority... ...more

Never mind living near an extraction industry site & suffering the consequences under a legal structure which indicates why Libertarianism does not work for a society in the real world, now now the proprietary contents of fracking fluids & what else comes up with them will come to us thro... ...more

Glad this was written, as a collection of testaments to the personal cost of fracking done badly. Yet the book was rushed and not carefully crafted.

The echnical summary of how fracking work as an appendix is a good introduction. ...more

i received this book for free through goodreads first reads.
a little hard to read both because of the way that it is written and because of the hard truth it talks about. ...more

A very good book. More people need to read this book. Reading the personal stories of how fracking is impacting people is very eye-opening. Won this book from goodreads. ...more