Christian Science Monitor: One of my stranger speaker invitations recently was earlier this month in Moscow to an Adam Smith conference on Russia EOR (enhanced oil recovery), where I found myself in the ironic position of giving a presentation to reassure the audience that fracking,for oil was safe.
Fracking is fracking and there is little or no difference between the methods used for gas or oil. Oil fracking in its modern form of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing using less chemicals than before was introduced...