In a piece for the Huffington Post, Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick attempts to cut through some of the extreme rhetoric on both sides of the fracking debate, and provide a clearer picture of what’s at stake with the controversial natural gas extraction method.
Gleick argues that fracking, the common name for hydraulic fracturing, isn’t inherently good or bad.
“But good or bad things can happen as a result of fracking, depending on how it is implemented, where it is pursued, the ...
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