Fracking the Neighborhood - Jessica Smartt Gullion

Fracking the Neighborhood

Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling
Buch | Softcover
216 Seiten
2017
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-53462-8 (ISBN)
36,15 inkl. MwSt
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.

Gullion offers an overview of oil and gas development and describes the fossil-fuel culture of Texas, the process of fracking, related health concerns, and regulatory issues (including the notorious "Halliburton loophole"). She chronicles the experiences of community activists as they fight to be heard and to get the facts about the safety of fracking.

Touted as a greener alternative and a means to reduce dependence on foreign oil, natural gas development is an important part of American energy policy. Yet, as this book shows, it comes at a cost to the local communities who bear the health and environmental burdens.

Jessica Smartt Gullion, formerly Chief Epidemiologist at the Denton County Health Department in Denton, Texas, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman's University.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Urban and Industrial Environments
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Technik Bergbau
Technik Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10 0-262-53462-2 / 0262534622
ISBN-13 978-0-262-53462-8 / 9780262534628
Zustand Neuware
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