Fracking Quotes

“Would I laugh?"
"Matter of fact, you would," says Zeb. "Heart like shale. What you need is a good fracking.”
― Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam

“He remembers what the spiritual visionary, Wallace Black Elk, a Lakota said – man's scratching of the earth causes diseases like cancer. He meant the mining and drilling for coal, gas, oil, uranium. The scratching brings up the things deep in the earth that should have stayed down there.”
― J.J. Brown, Brindle 24

“Fracking is different. The risks of any single well are tiny compared to a nuclear power plant. But several hundred wells? Several thousand?”
― Russell Gold, The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

“Take the time to get it right. There'll be gas tomorrow night”
― Russell Gold, The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

“By the time the frackers are done in the other states our water will be worth more than oil.”
― Farid Khavari

“Fracking ensures that the age of oil-and it's princely hydrocarbon cousin, the natural gas molecule-will not end because we have run out of fossil fuels. But it may end because burning these wonderful fuels puts the planet farther down a path we don't want to head down”
― Russell Gold

“I don't fear fracking. I fear carbon”
― Russell Gold, The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

“Fracking exemplifies the technological wager, by which I mean a gamble or even a faith that we can transform the world in the pursuit of narrowly defined goals and successfully manage the broader unintended consequences that result. In many ways, we are gambling on present innovations. I think that if we are to live with high technology we cannot avoid this wager. The question is whether we can establish conditions to make it a fair and reasonable bet. In the case of fracking, I will argue, these conditions are largely not in place (3).”
― Adam Briggle, A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas

“To be attracted to another man in a violent place seems akin to a ticking bomb, logging, strip-mining, fracking. The American West is the playground for the country’s obsession with exploitation and destruction, with most extractive economies near Native American reservations. There are increased rates of birth defects. Higher rates of cancer. Violent people who mimic the violence done to the land. BOOM. And where there’s danger, there’s room for trespassing. And where there’s trespassing, there’s room for mischief.”
― Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land

“I wanted to be that open with others. Be able to express myself without fear. Spare emotions fester in a landscape where the only way capitalism has made sense of the American West is to fence it in. Break it into 160-acre parcels. Frack, mine, dam, and cut it to a stubble.”
― Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land