Slick Water

meticulously researched...a deft history of fracking from the 1850s (when torpedoes and nitroglycerin were used) through the 1960s (nuclear explosions) to modern hydraulic fracturing. --Nature Magazine Slick Water is a true-life noir filled with corruption, incompetence, and, ultimately, courage. It is a deeply informative, disturbing, and important book. --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction Andrew Nikiforuk crafts a stunning picture of fossil fuel industry and government abuse -- Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine In this balanced and meticulously researched page-turner, Andrew Nikiforuk follows Alberta whistleblower Jessica Ernst's quest for justice with a passion, verve, and level of damning detail reminiscent of A Civil Action. ...Jessica Ernst is Canada's Erin Brockovich, and this is an heroic book--Nikiforuk's best one yet. -- John Vaillant Praise for The Energy of Slaves: ...shocking and deeply enlightening. ...required reading for everyone who uses oil --Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute, and author of The End of Growth and The Party's Over A startling critique that should rouse us from our pipe dream of endless plenty. --Ronald Wright Praise for Tar Sands: Andrew Nikiforuk reveals the true costs of America's oil addiction. Tar Sands tells an important story with passion and wit. --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change a slashing indictment of politicians in the back pockets of energy megacorporations, of regulators cowed into acquiescence, and of all of us who look the other way as we fill our gas tanks. --Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down