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1) Fracking
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents facts about fracking, covering its origins, how it works, and its side effects.
2) Fracking
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the uses and workings of, and problems related to, the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Fracking has become a four-letter word to environmentalists. But most people don't know what it means. In his fast-paced, funny, and lively book, Sernovitz explains the reality of fracking: what it is, how it can be made safer, and how the oil business works.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Presents an unstinting exploration of controversial fracking technologies to consider the arguments of its supporters and detractors, profiling key contributors while explaining how the practice is changing the way energy is used.
Author
Series
Amos Decker volume 6
Language
English
Description
Amos Decker, the FBI consultant with a perfect memory, and Alex Jamison FBI. Return to solve a gruesome murder of a young woman named Irene Cramer, in a booming North Dakota oil fracking town. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall, bringing with them problems, including drugs, property crimes, prostitution and now agruesomee murder.
6) Fracking
Author
Series
Publisher
Cheriton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Can fracking be a clean, green, and safe way to power our lives? Discover the answer to this critical question and find out how sustainability is being achieved through science as the energy industry evolves in its quest to find solutions to our energy crisis. In this inspiring science book readers will find out why we burn fossil fuels, the harm it is causing, and why evolution in the fracking industry could make it a powerful weapon in the fight...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A vivid window into the world of working class men and the value of hard labor, set during the Bakken fracking boom in North Dakota. Shiftless and unsatisfied in his life, Michael Patrick Smith decided in his mid-thirties to seek out the hardest work he could find, to see if he could do it. He wanted to be a person, unlike his father, who knew how to work and get things done. He found himself in the oil fields of North Dakota during the Bakken fracking...
8) The real cost of fracking: how America's shale gas boom is threatening our families, pets, and food
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
Presents a cautionary assessment of the consequences of hydraulic fracturing that documents numerous cases of drilling-site contamination linked to human and animal illnesses.
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