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The Big Energy Question: How Has Fracking Changed Our Future?

Posted by Christina Nunez of National Geographic in The Big Energy Question on February 19, 2013
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Natural gas flared as waste is a new sight on the Dakota prairie, where fracking—a way of extracting hard-to-reach oil—and directional drilling have sparked a boom. (Photograph by Eugene Richards)

Has fracking changed our energy future for the better, or for the worse? Read viewpoints on both sides and vote in the poll below. The use of hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas from the earth dates back to the 1940s, but only in the past few years has “fracking” become an energy buzzword,…