Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling /
When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fence and diesel trucks clog a quiet two-lane residential street. Children seem to be having more than the usual number of nosebleeds. There are so many lo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Urban and industrial environments.
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| Summary: | When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fence and diesel trucks clog a quiet two-lane residential street. Children seem to be having more than the usual number of nosebleeds. There are so many local cases of cancer that the elementary school starts a cancer support group. In this book, Jessica Smartt Gullion examines what happens when natural gas extraction by means of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," takes place not on wide-open rural land but in a densely populated area with homes, schools, hospitals, parks and businesses. Gullion focuses on fracking in the Barnett Shale, the natural-gas rich geological formation under the Dallas--Fort Worth metroplex. She gives voice to the residents, for the most part educated, middle class and politically conservative, who became reluctant anti-drilling activists in response to perceived environmental and health threats posed by fracking. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 191 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-187) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262029766 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262029766 (hardcover : alk. paper) |