CHK: SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Chesapeake Energy Corp. posted an 86% jump in second-quarter profit Thursday, built on an aggressive drilling and gas field acquisition program that boosted the company's energy output by 45%.
The white man seeks to conquer nature, to bend it to his will and to use it wastefully until it is all gone and then he simply moves on, leaving the waste behind him and looking for new places to take. Chiksika (Kispokotha Shawnee),March 19,1779