"Promised Land" Drills into Fracking Debate
“Promised Land” – a new movie that portrays a fictional town’s efforts to resist fracking – is drawing renewed attention to the controversial drilling process by which energy companies extract natural gas from shale deposits. Fracking is a technique that involves injecting chemicals, sand, and millions of gallons of water under high pressure directly into the ground to release the natural gas in shale formations. The cause for environmental concern around fracking (also known