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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 techniqu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ladd, Anthony E., 1953- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Colección:Nature, society, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction. Energy Matters; Chapter 1. Natural Gas Fracking on Public Lands: The Trickle-down Impacts of Neoliberalism in Ohioâ#x80;#x99;s Utica Shale Region; Chapter 2. This (Gas) Land Is Your (Truth) Land?: Documentary Films and Cultural Fracturing in Prominent Shale Communities; Chapter 3. Disturbing the Dead: Community Concerns over Fracking below a Cemetery in the Utica Shale Region; Chapter 4. Mobilizing against Fracking: Marcellus Shale Protest in Pittsburgh
  • Chapter 5. Engines, Sentinels, and Objects: Assessing the Impacts of Unconventional Energy Development on Animals in the Marcellus Shale RegionChapter 6. Motivational Frame Disputes Surrounding Natural Gas Fracking in the Haynesville Shale; Chapter 7. Denial, Disinformation, and Delay: Recreancy and Induced Seismicity in Oklahomaâ#x80;#x99;s Shale Plays; Chapter 8. Contested Colorado: Shifting Regulations and Public Responses to Unconventional Oil Production; Chapter 9. Citizen Resistance to Oil Production and Acid Fracking in the Sunshine State
  • Chapter 10. Public Participation and Protest in the Siting of Liquefied Natural Gas Terminals in OregonConclusion. Standing at the Energy Policy Crossroads; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Index