HIST 257 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Disaster, Sti College, Williston Basin
7 Dec 2015
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Fracking: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Since the discovery of coal as an energy resource, civilizations have been dependent on elements extracted from the earth for energy production. Following the discovery of coal, along with all of its unpleasant consequences, an increased focus on energy production by oil and gas began with rapid and successful results. The 1860s marked the first commercial united states oil well drilled, along with the earliest forms of human-induced, non-hydraulic fracturing, aimed to increase productivity (sti group, As oil companies and governments flourished economically in this energy regime, still existed the desire to be bigger and better; they sought for greater access to natural gas and fossil fuels. Inspired by civil war veteran"s observations of the damage powerful weaponry could do, oil fields began experimenting shooting gunpowder and other proppants into wells in the 1940s (macrae, 2014).
