Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110421:08:08:00
Appalachia, hundreds of drilling rigs are working 24/7 to tap a vast few resource. >> this is the marcelis shale. >> not much to look at, but crack it open the right way and it becomes important source of the american natural gas. >> i'm for red, white, blue btu. >> cracking the shale is a complex process. drill bits reach deep in ground and turn sideways to penetrate the rock. after explosionives fractured the shale, millions of gallons of so-called cracking fluid, water, sand and other chemicals are pumped in under extreme pressure to expand the cracks. freeing the gas to flow back up the we...