TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gullion,Jessica Smartt
TI  - Fracking the neighborhood: reluctant activists and natural gas drilling 
T2  - Urban and industrial environments
SN  - 9780262329798
AV  - TD195.G3 G864 2015eb
U1  - 622/.3381 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Gas wells
KW  - Hydraulic fracturing
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Urban pollution
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - Urban ecology (Sociology)
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Mining
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - ENVIRONMENT/General
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology
KW  - URBANISM/General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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ER  -