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Fractured Communities : Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions /

While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twenty-first century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques-mor...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boudet, Hilary (Contribuidor), Cable, Sherry, Gaustad, Brittany (Contribuidor), Hall, Peter M. (Contribuidor), Hall, Peter, Ladd, Anthony E. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Malin, Stephanie A. (Contribuidor), Maples, James N. (Contribuidor), Maples, James, Mix, Tamara L. (Contribuidor), Mix, Tamara, Price, Carmel E. (Contribuidor), Price, Carmel, Raynes, Dakota K. T. (Contribuidor), Raynes, Dakota K.T, Ryder, Stacia S. (Contribuidor), Ryder, Stacia, Staggenborg, Suzanne (Contribuidor), Tran, Trang (Contribuidor), Vasi, Ion Bogdan (Contribuidor), Whitley, Cameron Thomas (Contribuidor), Widener, Patricia (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Colección:Nature, Society, and Culture
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Energy Matters
  • 1. Natural Gas Fracking on Public Lands: The Trickle-down Impacts of Neoliberalism in Ohio's Utica Shale Region
  • 2. This (Gas) Land Is Your (Truth) Land? Documentary Films and Cultural Fracturing in Prominent Shale Communities
  • 3. Disturbing the Dead: Community Concerns over Fracking below a Cemetery in the Utica Shale Region
  • 4. Mobilizing against Fracking: Marcellus Shale Protest in Pittsburgh
  • 5. Engines, Sentinels, and Objects: Assessing the Impacts of Unconventional Energy Development on Animals in the Marcellus Shale Region
  • 6 Motivational Frame Disputes Surrounding Natural Gas Fracking in the Haynesville Shale
  • 7. Denial, Disinformation, and Delay: Recreancy and Induced Seismicity in Oklahoma's Shale Plays
  • 8. Contested Colorado: Shifting Regulations and Public Responses to Unconventional Oil Production in the Niobrara Shale Region
  • 9. Citizen Resistance to Oil Production and Acid Fracking in the Sunshine State
  • 10. Public Participation and Protest in the Siting of Liquefied Natural Gas Terminals in Oregon
  • Conclusion: Standing at the Energy Policy Crossroads
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index