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043 _an-us---
050 0 4 _aTD195
_b.F733 2015
049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aGullion, Jessica Smartt,
_d1972-
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245 1 0 _aFracking the neighborhood :
_breluctant activists and natural gas drilling /
_cJessica Smartt Gullion.
260 _aCambridge, Massachusetts ;
_aLondon, England :
_bThe MIT Press,
_c(c)2015.
300 _a1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages)
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _adata file
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490 1 _aUrban and industrial environments
504 _a2
505 0 0 _aOil and gas development --
_tA brief overview of natural gas drilling in Texas --
_tActivists' concerns about health --
_tA lack of competent guardians --
_tReluctant activists --
_tEpistemic privilege --
_tPerformative environmentalism --
_t(In)visibility in the gas field.
520 0 _aWhen 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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650 0 _aGas wells
_xHydraulic fracturing
_xEnvironmental aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aUrban pollution
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aEnvironmentalism.
650 0 _aUrban ecology (Sociology)
650 0 _aUrban ecology (Biology)
653 _aENVIRONMENT/General
653 _aSOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology
653 _aURBANISM/General
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1090878&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell