Slick water
Subtitle: fracking and one insider's stand against the world's most powerful industry
By: Andrew Nikiforuk
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781771640763; 9781771640770
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Alberta. Alberta Environment; EnCana (Firm); Trials, litigation; Biologistes; Procès, instances; Biologists; Hydraulic fracturing; Biographies; Fracturation hydraulique; Aspect de l'environnement; EnCana (Firme); Alberta; Alberta. Energy Resources Conservation Board; Biography
Description: "When Jessica Ernst's well water turned into a flammable broth that even her dogs refused to drink, the biologist and long-time oil patch consultant discovered that energy giant Encana had secretly fracked hundreds of gas wells around her home, piercing her community's drinking water aquifer. Since then, her ongoing lawsuit against Encana, Alberta Environment, and the Energy Resources Conservation Board has made her a folk hero in many places worldwide where fracking is underway. In this powerful work of investigative journalism, Andrew Nikiforuk interweaves Ernst's story with the science of fracking and stories of human and environmental repercussions left in its wake."--Front flap.

Canadian biologist Jessica Ernst's ongoing lawsuit against Encana, Alberta Environment, and the Energy Resources Conservation Board has made her a folk hero in many places worldwide where fracking is underway. In this work of investigative journalism, Andrew Nikiforuk interweaves Ernst's story with the history and science of fracking and the technology's growing impact on people, land, and water. Slick Water raises dramatic questions about the role of Big Oil in government, society's obsession with mining low-grade oil and gas formations, and the future of democracy.
Notes: Co-published by: David Suzuki Institute.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dress for less explosion; title: This much you should know; title: Fracking Oildorado; title: Before shale : coal; title: A revolution under Rosebud; title: Criminal threats; title: Banished; title: Keys to the bank; title: Fingerprints and liabilities; title: The police come calling; title: Kafka's law; title: The road of the dishes; title: "No duty of care"; title: The sisters of Jessica Ernst; title: Epilogue: Completions.