Full Title: The Green Side of Fracking
Author(s): Josiah Neeley
Publisher(s): R Street Institute
Publication Date: September 1, 2015
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Description (excerpt):
Originally patented in 1949, hydraulic fracturing – known colloquially as “fracking” – is a process to recover oil and gas from shale rock. In the fracking process, water, sand and other materials are pumped deep below the surface, where the pressure from opens small fractures in the shale rock that allow the oil and gas within to be extracted more easily. While the fracking process has been in use for more than 75 years, it is only within the last 10 years that refinements in the process, combined with other technologies (such as horizontal drilling), have made it economical to recover significant quantities of oil and gas from shale.