China experiences a fracking boom, and all the problems that go with it | World News, The Indian Express

China experiences a fracking boom, and all the problems that go with it | World News, The Indian Express

By New York Times |China |Published: March 10, 2019 12:21:08 pm

China experiences a fracking boom, and all the problems that go with it

Fracking has nonetheless vastly expanded the natural resources that can be recovered underground, making the technology irresistible to China, which is highly dependent on energy imports, as the United States once was.

In the hours after the quakes, thousands of residents converged outside the main government building in Rong County to protest widespread fracking in the rolling hills and valleys here now yellowing with the flowering of rapeseed. (New York Times)

Written by Steven Lee Myers

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The first earthquake struck this small farming village in Sichuan province before dawn on Feb. 24. There were two more the next day.

Sichuan is naturally prone to earthquakes, including a major one in 2008 that killed nearly 70,000 people, but to the rattled villagers of Gaoshan, the cause of these tremors was human-made.

“The drilling,” Yu Zhenghua said as she tearfully surveyed her damaged home, still officially uninhabitable five days later.