New York Times: France and Bulgaria have already banned it, and in Britain the governments attempts to promote it have led to heated demonstrations in the countryside. It is complicating Germanys attempts to wean itself from fossil fuels and forcing Russia to recalibrate the energy-export strategy that sustains its economy. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has already revolutionized the energy business in the United States, which is now 87 percent self-sufficient for gas, and it is transforming environmental...