Dirty Fracking Business: White Collar Crime Environmental Financial Thriller
Book Details
Author(s)Peter Ralph
ISBN / ASINB00WVXADQK
ISBN-13978B00WVXADQ2
Sales Rank673,118
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
The water and the air in the Fisher Valley were pristine before coal seam gas companies arrived with government-endorsed gas exploration and development licences.
Then they marched roughshod over the owners of privately owned, highly productive farming and grazing land, paying them little in the way of compensation.
After drilling, they fracked the coal seams and released the methane, while giving scant attention to the ground, air and water pollution they were creating.
When little Charlie Paxton, aged only six, dies from a mysterious form of cancer, his father, Charles Paxton, swears to have his revenge. Charles is determined to stop the gas companies even if it means blowing up their wells and blocking their access to agricultural properties.
But big gas is powerful and backed by rapacious governments who won't hesitate to use their police and army to smash through blockades.


