Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting with Disaster

by Walter M. Brasch

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. Horizontal fracturing, better known as fracking, is the process of injection as much as seven million gallons of water, propants (like silica sand), and toxins into the earth to fracture the shale and extract methane. Dr. Brasch readily acknowledges that the engineering to create fracking may be one of the most significant works of science of the latter twentieth century. Politicians want natural gas companies to come into their states, 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, as well as an extensive look at the money trail between the industry and the politicians’ campaign receipts. Combining both scientific evidence and extensive interviews with those affected by fracking throughout the country, 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.

274 pages, Paperback

First published December 16, 2012

About the author

professor of journalism; president of Pennsylvania Press Club; syndicated columnist; radio commentator for three networks. Hustling book writer."

Reviews

[Steph (loves water) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Deeply researched and thorough, I really enjoyed it. I don't live there but my parents grew up there. I'm from Connecticut, and now there's legislation to treat Penn frackwaste water here...this book comes in doubly handy because now I know what to say and how to fight them. Thank you, Mr. Brasch, for doing such a wonderful job and writing such an important book

[Jack · Rating 1 out of 5]

Too lefty liberal tree hugging damned business Republicans hate for me. Bits of interesting information on what fracking is and the dangers of it, if you can muddle through the propaganda.

[priority_ceiling · Rating 2 out of 5]

Met the author today. Biased