Shale Shrugged

AP is running a look at the history of fracking and all of that: Decades of federal dollars helped fuel gas boom

But what I think the story misses, and pointed out here in the past, in the long history of Federal research into that which is known as fracturing are the attempts to use atomic detonations to tease the natural gas from the shale.  Read up on:

• Project Rulison
• Project Gasbuddy
• Project Rio Blanco

So if you are a relativist, it sure makes anything happening these days appear a bit tame. 








Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2012/09/23/4211712/decades-of-federal-dollars-helped.html#storylink=cpy