Fractured communities : risk, impacts, and protest against hydraulic fracking in U.S. shale regions /

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"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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Ladd, Anthony E., 1953- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Series:Nature, society, and culture.
Subjects:
Hydraulic fracturing > Social aspects > United States.
Hydraulic fracturing > Risk assessment > United States.
Petroleum industry and trade > United States.
Shale gas industry > United States.
Fracturation hydraulique > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Fracturation hydraulique > Évaluation du risque > États-Unis.
Gaz de schiste > Industrie > États-Unis.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Petroleum industry and trade
Shale gas industry
Risiko
Erdgasgewinnung
Erdölgewinnung
Fracking
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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