Fracking

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CHAPTER ONE FLAMING TAP WATER sherry sherry Vargson turned on the water in her kitchen She struck a match and then held it by the stream of water Foom A small fireball erupted from the faucet It was 2011 and she had been having problems with her water for a year In the winter her horse's outdoor trough of water did not freeze even when temperatures dropped to 14 degrees Fahrenheit 26°C Vargson believed her water contained high levels of methane an extremely flammable gas Vargson blamed hydraulic fracturing or fracking for the problems This technique injects a mixture of water sand and chemicals into the ground at high pressure in order to release natural gas and other fossil fuels from deep underground rock formations The process Sherry Vargson lights her sink water on fire showing that methane has leaked into her home's well 4