Fracking the neighborhood :
Gullion, Jessica Smartt, 1972-
Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling / Jessica Smartt Gullion. - 1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages) - Urban and industrial environments . - Urban and industrial environments. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-187) and index.
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.
9780262329798 0262329794 9780262329804 0262329808
6951F200-C0EC-416F-B66C-CEC80F358C9C OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 10345 MIT Press 9780262329798 MIT Press
Gas wells--Hydraulic fracturing--Environmental aspects--United States.
Urban pollution--United States.
Environmentalism.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Mining.
Environmentalism.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban pollution.
United States.
ENVIRONMENT/General SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology URBANISM/General
Electronic books.
TD195.G3 / G864 2015eb
622/.3381
Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling / Jessica Smartt Gullion. - 1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages) - Urban and industrial environments . - Urban and industrial environments. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-187) and index.
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.
9780262329798 0262329794 9780262329804 0262329808
6951F200-C0EC-416F-B66C-CEC80F358C9C OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 10345 MIT Press 9780262329798 MIT Press
Gas wells--Hydraulic fracturing--Environmental aspects--United States.
Urban pollution--United States.
Environmentalism.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Mining.
Environmentalism.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban pollution.
United States.
ENVIRONMENT/General SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology URBANISM/General
Electronic books.
TD195.G3 / G864 2015eb
622/.3381