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Everyone understood it was crazy to try to extract engine oil and gas buried in shale rock and roll deep below the bottom. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters - who risked their careers to prove the globe wrong. Things looked grim for American energy in 2006. Essential oil production is at steep drop and gas was difficult to find. The Iraq War threatened the country's already tenuous relationships with the center East. China was quickly industrializing and fighting for resources. Major engine oil companies had nearly given up on new discoveries on U.S. earth, and a fresh energy crisis appeared likely. But a handful of men believed everything was going to change. Far from the limelight, Aubrey McClendon, Harold Hamm, Mark Papa, and other wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of coal and oil that Exxon, Chevron, and other giants acquired dismissed as a waste material of time. By tinkering with hydraulic fracturing through extremely dense shale - an activity now known as fracking - the wildcatters started out a trend. In only a couple of years, they resolved America's dependence on imported energy, brought about a worldwide environmental controversy - and made and lost amazing fortunes. No one knows these men much better than the award-winning Wall structure Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman. His exclusive access empowered him to get near to the frackers and chronicle the untold report of how they changed the nation and the globe. The result is a dramatic stretching from the barren fields of North Dakota and the rolling hills of northeastern Pennsylvania to cluttered pickup trucks in Tx and tense Wall structure Street boardrooms. Activists claim that the same methods that are creating a whole lot new energy are also harming our normal water supply and intimidating environmental chaos. The Frackers explains to the story of the irritated opposition unleashed by this trend and explores just how dangerous fracking really is.
