Main Title |
Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling / |
Author |
Gullion, Jessica Smartt,
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Publisher |
MIT Press, |
Year Published |
2015 |
OCLC Number |
907295437 |
ISBN |
9780262029766; 0262029766 |
Subjects |
Gas wells--Hydraulic fracturing--Environmental aspects--United States ;
Urban pollution--United States ;
Environmentalism ;
Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EOAM |
TD195.G3G8 2015 |
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Region 8 Technical Library/Denver,CO |
10/31/2016 |
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Collation |
xiv, 191 pages ; 24 cm. |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-187) and index. |
Contents Notes |
Oil and gas development -- A brief overview of natural gas drilling in Texas -- Activists' concerns about health -- A lack of competent guardians -- Reluctant activists -- Epistemic privilege -- Performative environmentalism -- (In)visibility in the gas field. 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. --Publisher. |
Place Published |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Title Ser Add Ent |
Urban and industrial environments. |
PUB Date Free Form |
2015 |
Series Title Untraced |
Urban and industrial environments |
BIB Level |
m |
Medium |
unmediated |
Content |
text |
Carrier |
volume |
Cataloging Source |
RDA |
LCCN |
2015011499 |
Merged OCLC records |
932593553 |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20161018061209 |
Language |
eng |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |
OCLC Rec Leader |
02749cam 2200433 i 45010 |