Fracking the Neighborhood: Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling - Rilegato

Gullion, Jessica Smartt

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ISBN 10: 0262029766 ISBN 13: 9780262029766

Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 2015

Riassunto

What happens when natural gas drilling moves into an urban area: how communities in North Texas responded to the environmental and health threats of fracking.

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-gasrich geological formation under the DallasFort Worth metroplex. She gives voice to the residentsfor the most part educated, middle class, and politically conservativewho became reluctant anti-drilling activists in response to perceived environmental and health threats posed by fracking.

Gullion offers an overview of oil and gas development and describes the fossil-fuel culture of Texas, the process of fracking, related health concerns, and regulatory issues (including the notorious Halliburton loophole). She chronicles the experiences of community activists as they fight to be heard and to get the facts about the safety of fracking.

Touted as a greener alternative and a means to reduce dependence on foreign oil, natural gas development is an important part of American energy policy. Yet, as this book shows, it comes at a cost to the local communities who bear the health and environmental burdens.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jessica Smartt Gullion, formerly Chief Epidemiologist at the Denton County Health Department in Denton, Texas, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman's University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Mit Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0262029766
• ISBN 13: 9780262029766
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 191
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile