Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling

Title
  1. Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling / Jessica Smartt Gullion.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2017]
  2. ©2015
Author
  1. Gullion, Jessica Smartt, 1972-

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Description
  1. xiv, 191 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
  1. "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"--Page 4 of cover.
Series statement
  1. Urban and industrial environments
Uniform title
  1. Urban and industrial environments
Subject
  1. Gas wells > Hydraulic fracturing > Environmental aspects > United States
  2. Urban pollution > United States
  3. Environmentalism
  4. Urban ecology (Sociology)
  5. Gaz naturel > Puits > Fracturation hydraulique > Aspect de l'environnement > États-Unis
  6. Pollution urbaine > États-Unis
  7. Environnementalisme
  8. Écologie urbaine
  9. urban environments
  10. Urban pollution
  11. United States
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.