The advent of horizontal drilling and horizontal hydraulic fracturing technology has allowed hundreds of thousands of acres of land to be leased and eventually fracked. |
Microseismic technology involves lowering detectors into a listening well near a fracked well. |
Most fracked wells use 1 million to 5 million gallons of water over three to five days. |
The group blocked the railroad crossing in Fairfield to protest the transport of fracked oil. |
People on fracked land have toxic water, their soil is toxic, the air is toxic. |
Investing in policies that encourage such changes would be much smarter than subsidizing the fertilizer industry's move toward relying on fracked gas. |