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The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
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About The Boom: How Fracking Ignited The American Energy
Product Description Pages: 384 Language: English Publisher: Simon & Schuster US Russell Gold. a brilliant and dogged investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal. has spent more than a decade reporting on one of the biggest stories of our time: the spectacular. world-changing rise of . fracking Recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award for his work. Gold has traveled along the pipelines and into the hubs of this country's energy infrastructure; he has visited frack sites from Texas to North Dakota; and he has conducted thousands of interviews with engineers and wildcatters. CEOs and roughnecks. environmentalists and politicians He has also sifted through reams of engineering reports. lawsuit transcripts. and financial filings The result is an essential book-a commanding piece.. of journalism. an astounding study of human ingenuity. and an epic... From Booklist *Starred Review* Fracking is a colloquialism that has entered everyday conversation only in the last dozen years, as the drilling operation it refers to, fracturing underground shale deposits to extract oil and gas, has literally and figuratively burst onto the American energy-production landscape. Tagging along with it are all the ideas the word evokes, both good and bad, from energy independence to possible contamination of underground water aquifers. Gold, an award-winning senior energy reporter for the Wall Street Journal, has the ideal background for creating an engrossing history of fracking, while weighing its benefits against its potential hazards. He describes the scene at a typical fracking operation in North Dakota near a well surrounded by water tanks and monitoring hardware. He profiles Aubrey McLendon, one of fracking’s most enthusiastic champions, whose star fell quickly when he mismanaged company funds. Gold also adds a more personal touch to his report when he describes the unpleasant impact drilling companies had on his parents when they sold the mining rights to their rural Pennsylvania property. Combining lucid explanations of fracking’s technical aspects with the practice’s more dramatic backstory, Gold’s work is a tour de force of contemporary journalism that will captivate anyone concerned with the future of energy consumption and our rapidly changing climate. --Carl Hays Review "Russell Gold’s The Boom is a double quest. He tells the story of the biggest innovation in energy so far in this century—the shale gas revolution. He captures the personalities, and the drama and surprises, and brings clarity to the debate about the environmental impact—and what it means for the U.S. economy and “energy independence.” But it’s also a more personal story – about “The Farm” in rural Pennsylvania where he spent time as a child, and his quest to understand what is happening in this new age of shale gas." Author: Daniel Yergin, author of The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World and of The Prize “In The Boom, Russell Gold provides a compelling account of the last half century of natural gas technology development. Driven by hunches, large ambitions and even larger personalities, the story of fracking is the story of innovation, American style. Gold delves into the growing conflict between economic development and concerns over environmental damage, and explains why fracking is seen by some as a vital bridge to a sustainable energy future and feared by others as another excuse to postpone addressing the risks of climate change…. The Boom puts a human face on the unfinished story of our struggle to transition to a sustainable world.” Author: Steven Chu, Former United States Secretary of Energy "Gold's book is an early must-read for 2014: it is both a thorough and fascinating examination of the fracking economy and the technological innovations that have made these new riches accessible (including the often catastrophic damage done in the process of obtaining them)." Source: G
