Feature
January 2010 Vol. 237 No. 1
New Desalination Technology Deployed in Marcellus Shale Basin
Although the Marcellus Shale and other shale natural gas basins in the United States have proved to hold huge quantities of potential energy, the hydraulic fracturing methods used to retrieve gas from 6,000 feet below ground level have excited controversy due to their costs in water resources and pollution.