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Fracking the Neighborhood: Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling

Fracking the Neighborhood: Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling

Gullion, Jessica Smartt

Paperback

Series: Urban and Industrial Environments

Public HealthEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0262534622
ISBN13: 9780262534628
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Sep 8 2017
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
What happens when natural gas drilling moves into an urban area: how communities in North Texas responded to the environmental and health threats of fracking.

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.

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