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Fracking Pennsylvania:
  Flirting with Disaster

By Walter M. Brasch

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About the Book
"Fracking Pennsylvania is a fact-based overview of the issues surrounding the natural gas industry and fracking. Although it focuses upon the Marcellus Shale, it looks at cases and issues in other parts of the country. The book is not meant to be a comprehensive analysis of the science and engineering of the process to extract natural gas nor an extensive discussion of the economic, health, environmental, and political issues. It is meant as a basic reference to acquaint people with the issues, with the hope they will dig deeper into areas that directly concern them and rally their friends and neighbors to help protect the health and environment of the people, wildlife, and natural vegetation."
About the Author
Walter M. Brasch, Ph.D., is an award-winning syndicated social issues columnist. He is a former newspaper and magazine reporter and editor, multimedia multi-screen writer-producer, and retired professor of mass communications and journalism. He is also the author of 15 other books, most of them focusing upon the fusion of historical and contemporary social issues.

 

He has been a social activist since the mid-1960s. Currently, he is co-founder and vice-president of the Northeast Pennsylvania Homeless Alliance and vice-president of the Central Susquehanna Chapter of the ACLU.

Critical Acclaim
"Fracking Pennsylvania is a remarkable piece of work, and a great resource for anyone working on the issue."
--Joe Uehlein, labor/environmental activist and musician


“Fracking Pennsylvania is an indispensable book for anyone who wants to understand natural gas fracking and the environmental risks it presents. But it is the politics of fracking, of how Gov. Tom Corbett (R-Pa.) essentially sold the state to the natural gas industry for beads and trinkets (and $1.8 million in donations to his political campaigns) that will cause the greatest outrage. Walter M. Brasch has done a public service by creating a devastating and coherent account of how Texas and Oklahoma energy kingpins got their way in Pennsylvania. The gas boom has brought lower natural gas and electricity prices, but at what cost to our future?”
–DAVID DeKOK, Fire Underground: the Ongoing Tragedy of the Centralia Mine Fire; Unseen Danger: A Tragedy of People, Government, and Centralia; The Epidemic: A Collusion of Power, Privilege, and Public Health.


“Walter Brasch has presented the many complicated issues surrounding shale gas drilling in Pennsylvania in a clear, easy to understand manner without oversimplifying them. Fracking Pennsylvania is packed with information every Pennsylvanian—and everyone living in any area being drilled or likely to be drilled by the gas industry—needs to know about the environmental, public health and safety, and economic risks this dangerous practice poses.”
—Karen Feridun, founder, Berks Gas Truth


“Dr. Brasch has meticulously researched the issues behind hydraulic fracture mining (fracking) in all its complexity: geologic, environmental, social, economic and political. Shale gas being touted more and more as the greener energy of our future makes this book an essential reader for anyone who wants to safeguard their health and the environment.” 
—Carol Terracina Hartman, environmental journalist
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Dr. Walter M. Brasch is an American professor and social issues journalist. Dr. Brasch's latest work is a 2013 publication called Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting With Disaster. In this work, Brasch digs into the natural gas industry and extracts the truth about fracking. The  author's investigation concludes that errors made by the natural gas industry have caused significant public health and environmental problems while delving into their effect on agriculture, wildlife, and livestock.

03/15/13 

With Deana Spingola, "Spingola Speaks," Republic Network

Guest: Dr. Walter M. Brasch talks about fracking

3/10/13
The Michelle Jackson Show on KRXA

Walter M. Brasch author of "Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting with Disaster" joins me to discuss Fracking and our own Monterey Shale