TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gullion,Jessica Smartt
TI  - Fracking the neighborhood: reluctant activists and natural gas drilling 
T2  - Urban and industrial environments
SN  - 9780262329798
AV  - TD195 .F733 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Gas wells
KW  - Hydraulic fracturing
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Urban pollution
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - Urban ecology (Sociology)
KW  - Urban ecology (Biology)
KW  - ENVIRONMENT/General
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology
KW  - URBANISM/General
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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 --
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