decided to highlight5 Aug 2010 20:13
the important excerpt from the previous link :-
"Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" to those who know, means injecting fluid at very high pressure into a well - oil, water, or natural gas - though the most important fracking application is in natural gas. The injections make tiny cracks in ultra-deep underground rock (usually shale), allowing the gas (or whatever you want to extract) to seep out. It's not a new process, it's been done for decades, but it has made huge technological strides in the past two years.
That is likely to continue, helping make and keep natural gas cheap for a long time and maybe even cutting the price in half or more! Fracking will also mean massive shifts away from competing energy sources to gas. The winners will be fracking firms and THOSE WHO SERVICE THEM(i.e. Rheochem supplies fracturing chemicals), along with their shareholders."