Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand against the World's Most Powerful Industry

After energy giant Encana secretly fracked hundreds of gas wells around her home & her well water turned to a flammable broth, Jessica Ernst started asking questions. When she put forward evidence that Encana had violated laws by fracturing the community's drinking water aquifer, Ernst was falsely tagged as a bomb-making terrorist & visited by the government’s anti-terrorism squad. 

Frightened but undaunted, she uncovered a startling history of liability, fraud, & intimidation, along with a willful denial of widespread groundwater contamination. Jessica Ernst’s remarkable story raises dramatic questions about the role of Big Oil in government, society’s obsession with rapidly depleting supplies of unconventional oil & gas, & the future of civil society.