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Halliburton frac fluid on a tractor trailer near Buffalo, PA, The Haliburton Loophole. Image credit:Marcellus-Shale.us Groundwater, invisible, and ordinarily slower than a snail, rushes movement of the spillings and drillings of man when bedrock cracks are opened wider, and held that way through hydraulic fracturing or "fracing". Extraction of natural gas held tightly in Marcellus Shale rock, thousands of feet below the earth's surface, has until now been a hydraulic smash-and-grab operation. Gas wells are punched deep into the earth; layers of ro...Read the full story on TreeHugger


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