My gosh!
I worked as engineer in the petroleum industry for my whole career, and I never before heard of a “drilling activist”.
And speaking of choices of words, we (or a service company) pumped water, ‘chemicals’, and sand under sufficient pressure to fracture tight formations. Don’t remember ever hearing about ‘blasting’ water, etc into formations.
“And speaking of choices of words, we (or a service company) pumped water, ‘chemicals’, and sand under sufficient pressure to fracture tight formations. Don’t remember ever hearing about ‘blasting’ water, etc into formations.”
Of course you can sensationalize it better by using the word blasting. Once upon a time they did blast to fracture well with nitroglycerin in an open hole completion before hydraulic fracturing was developed.