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Author Gullion, Jessica Smartt, 1972- author.

Title Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling / Jessica Smartt Gullion.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages).
Series Urban and industrial environments
Urban and industrial environments.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-187) and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Subject Gas wells -- Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
Urban pollution -- United States.
Environmentalism.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mining.
Environmentalism. (OCoLC)fst00913543
Urban ecology (Sociology) (OCoLC)fst01733718
Urban pollution. (OCoLC)fst01162510
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Indexed Term ENVIRONMENT/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology
URBANISM/General
Other Form: Print version: Gullion, Jessica Smartt, 1972- Fracking the neighborhood 9780262029766 (DLC) 2015011499 (OCoLC)907295437
ISBN 9780262329798 (electronic bk.)
0262329794 (electronic bk.)
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0262329808 (electronic bk.)
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