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Under the Surface : Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale by Wilber, Tom is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Running from southern West Virginia through eastern Ohio, across central and northeast Pennsylvania, and into New York through the Southern Tier and the Catskills, the Marcellus Shale formation underlies a sparsely populated region that features striking landscapes, critical watersheds, and a struggling economic base. It also contains one of the world's largest supplies of natural gas, a resource that has been dismissed as inaccessible-until recently. Technological developments that combine horizontal drilling with hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") have removed physical and economic barriers to extracting hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of gas from bedrock deep below the Appalachian basin. Beginning in 2006, the first successful Marcellus gas wells by Range Resources, combined with a spike in the value of natural gas, spurred a modern-day gold rush-a "gas rush"-with profound ramifications for environmental policy, energy markets, political dynamics, and the lives of the people living in the Marcellus region. __Under the Surface__ is the first book-length journalistic overview of shale gas development and the controversies surrounding it. Control over drilling rights is at stake

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Author

Wilber, Tom

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801456374

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Nature, History, Management

Rating

3.72 / 5 (93 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13