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Letty Davenport 1McLean, Bethany
Summary: The technology of fracking in shale rock -- particularly in the Permian Basin in Texas -- has transformed America into the world's top producer of both oil and natural gas. The U.S. is expected to be "energy independent" and a "net exporter" in less than a decade, a move that will upend global politics, destabilize Saudi Arabia, crush Russia's chokehold over Europe, and finally bolster American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Global Reports 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333 .823 MCLHalberstam, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 HALZuckerman, Gregory.
Summary: "In five years, the United States has seen a historic burst of oil and natural gas production, easing our insatiable hunger for energy. A new drilling process called fracking has made us the world's fastest growing energy power, on track to pass Saudi Arabia by 2020. But despite headlines and controversy, no previous book has shown how the revolution really happened. The Frackers tells the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 ZUCLeonard, Christopher
Summary: Uses the extraordinary account of how the biggest private company in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 LEOMezrich, Ben
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 332.664 MEZArtist Not Provided
Summary: Examines how the fossil industry casts doubt on climate change to protect their business interests.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV POWIsser, Steve
Summary: This book, originally published in 1996, traces the development of US government policy toward the oil industry during the 1920s and 1930s when the domestic syustem of production control was established. It then charts the deveopment and collapse of oil import controls, and the wild scramble for economic rents generated by Government regulation. It discusses the two oil crises and the 'phantom'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.2 ISSSandford, John
Summary: "By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now she's restless and bored in a desk job for a U.S. Senator, but just as she's ready to quit, she is offered a task she can't refuse: feet-on-the-ground investigative work, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security. Several oil companies in Texas have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SANSummary: Marred by an over-reliance on stock footage, this documentary attempts to link the United States insatiable appetite for oil as the chief trigger of the war in Iraq. After making some frightening if familiar points about increasing oil consumption and diminishing reserves is unfortunately veers off into discussions of radioactive depleted uranium rounds in Afghanistan, the privatization of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free-Will Productions 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OILSandalow, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320 SandaMcKibben, Bill.
Summary: "Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C. But that's where he spent three days in the summer of 2011, after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. A few months later the protesters would see their efforts rewarded when President Obama agreed to put the project on hold. And yet McKibben...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 MCKSummary: A powerful portrait of America's overwhelming addiction to, and reliance on, oil. Having been born and raised in one of the USA's most oil-producing regions, Josh Tickell saw firsthand how the industry controls, deceives, and damages the country, its people, and the environment, and after one too many people he know became sick, he knew he just couldn't idly stand by any longer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre Studio 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FUEKillen, Andreas.
Contents: Fear of flying -- Reality programming -- Operation homecoming -- Personality crisis -- Warholism -- Reinventing the fifties -- Power shift -- Conspiracy nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 KILWald, Ellen R.
Summary: "A groundbreaking history that reveals the motivations and machinations behind Aramco and the rise of Saudi Arabia"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 WALSummary: "THE RELUCTANT RADICAL is an intimate portrait of climate activist Ken Ward. Ken breaks the law as a last resort and with great trepidation, to fulfill what he sees as his personal obligation to future generations. The film follows Ken through a series of civil disobedience direct actions, culminating with his participation in the coordinated action that shut down all the U.S. tar sands oil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018