The Word is Out
Fracking
Posted in Author Blog by Mark Stevens on May 28, 2011
“Buried by the Roan” comes out Aug. 9, 2011. You can see the spiffy cover on this People’s Press web page and it’s already starting to pop up on Amazon and other sites, too. Feels like the next two months will go very fast, indeed.
People say: “what’s it about?” I tell them it’s a sequel to “Antler Dust,” which came out in 2007 and was a Denver Post best-seller. I tell them “Buried by the Roan” features the same female hunting guide, Allison Coil, and that it’s about, well, fracking.
Yes, fracking.
(Weird, isn’t it, how a word like that enters common lingo?) “Fracking” is shorthand for hydraulic fracturing.
It’s the process of injecting water deep underground to release natural gas, the natural gas we burn in your house and mine (unless you are off the grid) for all our natural gas needs.
Did I say water? Yes, water and chemicals…..lots of chemicals. A very secretive mix of chemicals that drilling firms are hesitant to name. Hesitant? How about adamantly determined to keep secret.
Go rent the documentary “Gasland” if you want to see water from a kitchen faucet being lit on fire ... yes, water from a kitchen faucet being lit on fire.
So what’s “Buried by the Roan” about? It’s about fracturing the earth, fracturing communities and it’s about the gorgeous photo on the cover of the book…a mountain lake, clouds descending, trouble ahead. I also think it’s also very much about the future of Western Colorado.
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