Crowley County Combined Library

"This book covers the energy resource of natural gas, including where it comes from, how we develop and use it, and how it helps power the world"--Provided by publisher.

Explains how natural gas is pumped to the surface and used for fuel.

A discussion of fossil fuels as power resources, providing information about coal, oil, and gas, looking at their effect on the Earth, atmosphere, and health, examining the cost of fossil fuel power, and considering its future.

In 2009, filmmaker Josh Fox learned his land was on top of the Marcellus Shale, a giant reservoir of natural gas that stretches across huge stretches of the northeast United States, and that he would be paid to lease his land for natural gas extraction. Fox documented his cross-country trek to find out if the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) is actually safe. What he unearthed was a discovery about a practice that is understudied...

Examines the controversy behind hydraulic fracturing, also known as "fracking."

In this explosive follow-up to his Oscar-nominated film Gasland, filmmaker Josh Fox uses his trademark dark humor to take a deeper, broader look at the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now occurring on a global level (in 32 countries worldwide).