Eve of destruction in North Dakota

North Dakota, Oil, and the Energy Crisis : The New Yorker: "One day a few months ago, beside a trailer parked near the center of the basin, half a dozen men prepared to send enough explosives underground to dismantle an armored tank. The firepower consisted of twenty-four “shaped charges”—little cone-shaped shells housed in foot-long metal cannisters called perforating guns. When the charges were detonated by an electrical signal, each shell would explode into the surrounding rock, forming corridors through which oil could flow into the well." Fracking is bad. Natural gas is the Wizard of Oz. Humbug.



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