Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling /
Gullion, Jessica Smartt, 1972-
Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling / Jessica Smartt Gullion. - Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages) - Urban and industrial environments .
Includes bibliographies 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.
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 --
9780262329798 9780262329804
Gas wells--Hydraulic fracturing--Environmental aspects--United States.
Urban pollution--United States.
Environmentalism.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban ecology (Biology)
ENVIRONMENT/General SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology URBANISM/General
Electronic Books.
TD195 / .F733 2015
Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling / Jessica Smartt Gullion. - Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages) - Urban and industrial environments .
Includes bibliographies 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.
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 --
9780262329798 9780262329804
Gas wells--Hydraulic fracturing--Environmental aspects--United States.
Urban pollution--United States.
Environmentalism.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban ecology (Biology)
ENVIRONMENT/General SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology URBANISM/General
Electronic Books.
TD195 / .F733 2015