{"id":1066,"date":"2012-09-18T22:27:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T02:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2023-10-07T11:34:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:34:03","slug":"fracking-faq-the-science-and-technology-behind-the-natural-gas-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2012\/09\/fracking-faq-the-science-and-technology-behind-the-natural-gas-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Fracking FAQ: The science and technology behind the natural gas boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/climate-energy\/fracking-faq-the-science-and-technology-behind-the-natural-gas-boom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full article can be found here on Grist &#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1067\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2012\/09\/fracking-faq-the-science-and-technology-behind-the-natural-gas-boom\/no-fracking-not-an-alternative-flickr-5001\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1067\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1067\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1067 \" title=\"No Fracking\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/no-fracking-not-an-alternative-flickr-5001.jpg\" alt=\"No Fracking\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No Fracking<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cFracking\u201d: It sounds more like a comic-book exclamation (kapow! boom! frack!) than a controversial method for extracting natural gas and oil from rock deep underground. By turns demonized as a catastrophic environmental threat and glorified as a therapy for our foreign oil addiction, fracking has become a flashpoint in our national energy policy.<\/p>\n<p>First developed in the 1940s, fracking \u2014 literally, \u201chydraulic fracturing,\u201d or \u201csmashing rock open with lots of water\u201d \u2014 only began to boom around 2005, but today, it\u2019s used in nine out of every 10 natural gas wells in the U.S. As many as 35,000 wells are fracked each year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). And shale gas (often fracked) now accounts for 15 percent of total U.S. natural gas production, up from virtually nil a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists assure us that fracking can be done safely \u2014 at least in theory. They are still working to understand the long-term implications of using this technology at large scale in the real world, however, where things spill, accidents happen, and people have their health, homes, schools, airports, groundwater, and even cemeteries to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>We know scientists aren\u2019t the only ones looking for answers. So below, we tackle six key questions about fracking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/climate-energy\/fracking-faq-the-science-and-technology-behind-the-natural-gas-boom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full article can be found here on Grist &#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full article can be found here on Grist &#8230;. \u201cFracking\u201d: It sounds more like a comic-book exclamation (kapow! boom! frack!) than a controversial method for extracting natural gas and oil from rock deep underground. By turns demonized as a catastrophic environmental threat and glorified as a therapy for our foreign oil addiction, fracking has become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178,383],"tags":[417,421,420,127,419,418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}