By Ezra Levant
From the bestselling writer of moral Oil comes a provocative exploration of the shale fuel rush. Levant explains what fracking is and explores what its enemies don't need you to understand and why it has the capability to alter our future.
In Groundswell, Ezra Levant examines the fracking revolution. Fracking (from "fracturing") contains injecting hundreds of thousands of gallons of water combined with sand and chemical compounds right into a good deep underground to fracture shale rock and unencumber formerly inaccessible reserves of oil and gasoline. the USA, Canada, North Africa, and the center East have great reserves of shale fuel and having access to it is going to suggest a seismic shift in power geopolitics. With usual fuel in abundance, costs fall and the stranglehold by way of power businesses like Russia's Gazprom loosens. OPEC, environmentalists, and groups all through North the USA are combating tough to prevent fracking, and Levant debunks their motivations and arguments, whereas arguing that fracking's merits outweigh its bills, even environmentally. With moral Oil, Levant thoroughly replaced the controversy surrounding Canada's oil sands. during this well timed and arguable e-book he presents desperately wanted standpoint on a subject matter of growing to be worldwide value.
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