Fracking the Neighborhood
Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling
$56.23
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2017
Summary
What happens when natural gas drilling moves into an urban area: how communities in North Texas responded to the environmental and health threats of fracking.
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 local cases of cancer that the e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262534628 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262534622 |
| Author: | Jessica Smartt Gullion |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 216g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Urban and Industrial Environments |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Jessica Smartt Gullion
Jessica Smartt Gullion, formerly Chief Epidemiologist at the Denton County Health Department in Denton, Texas, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman’s University.
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