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What Is Hydraulic Fracturing?
URL: http://www.propublica.org/special/hydraulic-fracturing

Description:
This graphic explains hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas, which "involves the injection of more than a million gallons of water, sand and chemicals at high pressure down and across into horizontally drilled wells as far as 10,000 feet below the [earth's] surface." Includes a brief description of natural gas extraction from the Marcellus Shale in New York, Pennsylvania, and southern Appalachia. From ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative journalism newsroom.

LII Topics: Natural Gas, Oil & Gas

Publisher:
Pro Publica Inc.

LII Database Information:
Record 28373 created by Jennifer English on 05/28/2009
Last modification on 06/11/2009
Published: 06/10/2009  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/28373

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