Fracking the Neighborhood : Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling /

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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 lo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gullion, Jessica Smartt, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Urban pollution.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Environmentalism.
Urban ecology (Biology)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Mining.
urban environments.
Écologie urbaine.
Environnementalisme.
Pollution urbaine > États-Unis.
Gaz naturel > Puits > Fracturation hydraulique > Aspect de l'environnement > États-Unis.
Urban pollution > United States.
Gas wells > Hydraulic fracturing > Environmental aspects > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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