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The Shale Renaissance : How Fracking Has Changed Pennsylvania in the Twenty-First Century /

"Although a technique for hydraulic fracturing-more commonly known as fracking-was developed and implemented in the 1970s in Texas, fracking of the Marcellus Shale formation that stretches from West Virginia through Pennsylvania to New York did not begin in earnest until the twenty-first centur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fisk, Jonathan M., 1983- (Author), Good, A. J. (Author), Jordan, Soren (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The politics of unconventional oil and gas and the challenge of compliance
  • Developing a theory of oil and gas compliance
  • Pennsylvania, fracking, and the twenty-first-century boom
  • Compliance trends
  • Site-level factors
  • County-level and substate factors
  • State-level factors
  • The context of compliance.