Fractured Communities : : Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions / / ed. by Anthony E. Ladd.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Boudet, Hilary,; Cable, Sherry,; Gaustad, Brittany,; Hall, Peter M.,; Hall, Peter,; Ladd, Anthony E.,; Malin, Stephanie A.,; Maples, James N.,; Maples, James,; Mix, Tamara L.,; Mix, Tamara,; Price, Carmel E.,; Price, Carmel,; Raynes, Dakota K. T.,; Raynes, Dakota K.T.,; Ryder, Stacia S.,; Ryder, Stacia,; Staggenborg, Suzanne,; Tran, Trang,; Vasi, Ion Bogdan,; Whitley, Cameron Thomas,; Widener, Patricia,
• HerausgeberIn: Ladd, Anthony E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Nature, Society, and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 18 black and white photographs

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 techniques—mor...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: Energy Matters
• 1. Natural Gas Fracking on Public Lands: The Trickle-down Impacts of Neoliberalism in Ohio’s Utica Shale Region
• 2. This (Gas) Land Is Your (Truth) Land? Documentary Films and Cultural Fracturing in Prominent Shale Communities
• 3. Disturbing the Dead: Community Concerns over Fracking below a Cemetery in the Utica Shale Region
• 4. Mobilizing against Fracking: Marcellus Shale Protest in Pittsburgh
• 5. Engines, Sentinels, and Objects: Assessing the Impacts of Unconventional Energy Development on Animals in the Marcellus Shale Region
• 6 Motivational Frame Disputes Surrounding Natural Gas Fracking in the Haynesville Shale
• 7. Denial, Disinformation, and Delay: Recreancy and Induced Seismicity in Oklahoma’s Shale Plays
• 8. Contested Colorado: Shifting Regulations and Public Responses to Unconventional Oil Production in the Niobrara Shale Region
• 9. Citizen Resistance to Oil Production and Acid Fracking in the Sunshine State
• 10. Public Participation and Protest in the Siting of Liquefied Natural Gas Terminals in Oregon
• Conclusion: Standing at the Energy Policy Crossroads
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on Contributors
• Index