Drill, baby, drill. Hydraulic fracturing, known on the streets as “hydrofracking,” involves the explosion of rock layers by an extremely pressurized liquid to expose new, deeper natural-gas supplies.

The re-release of "The Titanic" in 3-D seems well timed and is a curious metaphor for another doomed ship: the $ Hydrofrack. As the $ Hydrofrack sails out to sea under a full head of steam (the hot ...