" Boomtown Blues " / Alexander Fuller __ hydraulic fracturing... (tiny particles of sand suspended in a gel are blasted into the rock under extreme pressure, holding it open long enough to allow the gas to escape - a process that shakes the windows of houses as much as a mile away.) __ A place in the throes of an energy boom isn't so different from a person in the throes of an addiction: there's the denial that things are out of control, there's the sleeplessness and the moral carelessness. ... read more
