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American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

By the early 2000s, fracking was seen as the most promising new energy industry technology in decades. And when a Penn State geologist discovered that the shale field sitting under Pennsylvania and Upstate New York held over 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, the race was on to bring fracking to the Northeast. But in the rush to frack the new field, accidents began to happen, making locals question just how safe this new technique really was.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American innovations, add free on Amazon music, download
0:06.0	the app today.
0:07.0	It's 2006, Washington, Pennsylvania, 30 miles south of Pittsburgh.
0:20.8	37-year-old Stacey Haney is working her usual 12-hour shift in the recovery room at Washington
0:26.9	hospital.
0:28.2	An orderly brings in a patient still unconscious on his gurney.
0:32.0	You just get out of an emergency appendectomy.
0:34.5	He should be coming to you in the next half hour or so.
0:37.2	Haney checks his chart.
0:38.6	No problem.
0:39.6	I'll bage you when he's ready to go to his room.
0:42.0	While they wait for their patient to slowly wake up from anesthesia, Haney and her co-workers
0:47.0	have a lot of time to chat.
0:49.3	Haney often regales the mysteries of the animals she raises on her small farm outside
0:53.6	of town.
0:54.6	Bob broke down the fence again yesterday.
0:56.8	When he came home to find him trying to mount my neighbor's mare.
1:00.6	Her co-worker Susan shakes her head, laughing.
1:03.5	Huh, that donkey is such a troublemaker.
1:06.5	You need to build a barn for him before he gets into a real mess.
1:09.7	Haney shakes her head.
1:11.0	I wish.
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