{"id":6260,"date":"2011-09-28T02:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=6260"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:20:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:20:50","slug":"the-truth-about-fracking-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2011\/09\/28\/the-truth-about-fracking-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Fracking [infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fracking.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6262\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2011\/09\/28\/the-truth-about-fracking-infographic\/fracking-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fracking.png\" data-orig-size=\"500,333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fracking\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fracking-300x199.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fracking.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6262\" title=\"fracking\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fracking.png\" alt=\"fracking\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fracking.png 500w, https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fracking-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> As the natural gas industry goes after harder-to-get-to stores of gas, it&#8217;s using more extreme methods to extract it from the Earth. Hydraulic fracturing is a popular method in natural gas drilling, but environmental groups have some serious concerns about its impact on earthquakes, public health, and on our <a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2009\/09\/05\/epa-finds-2-butoyethanol-solvent-wells-natural-gas-extraction-sites\/\">drinking water supply<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This infographic by <a href=\"http:\/\/wellhome.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WellHome<\/a> explores the side of <a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/tag\/hydraulic-fracturing\/\">hydraulic fracturing<\/a>, or &#8220;fracking,&#8221; that the gas industry would rather we didn&#8217;t talk about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/HYDRAULIC-FRACTURING.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6261\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2011\/09\/28\/the-truth-about-fracking-infographic\/hydraulic-fracturing\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/HYDRAULIC-FRACTURING.png\" data-orig-size=\"500,5282\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"HYDRAULIC-FRACTURING\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;via http:\/\/wellhome.com\/&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/HYDRAULIC-FRACTURING-28x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/HYDRAULIC-FRACTURING-96x1024.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6261\" title=\"HYDRAULIC-FRACTURING\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/HYDRAULIC-FRACTURING.png\" alt=\"Fracking Infographic\" width=\"500\" height=\"5282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This infographic by WellHome explores the side of hydraulic fracturing, or &#8220;fracking,&#8221; that the gas industry would rather we didn&#8217;t talk about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[2854,388,392,777,1018,1444,1445],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fracking.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6260"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}