When Fracking Comes to Town : : Governance, Planning, and Economic Impacts of the US Shale Boom / / ed. by Ilia Murtazashvili, Sabina E. Deitrick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Chifos, Carla,; Córdova, Teresa,; Deitrick, Sabina E.,; Eisenberg, Ann M.,; Hall, Adelyn,; Harleman, Max,; Heidi, Gorovitz Robertson,; Loh, Carolyn G.,; Matsco, Rebecca,; McCarthy, Larry,; McClure, Nicholas G.,; Mischen, Pamela A.,; Murtazashvili, Ilia,; Osland, Anna C.,; Pages, Erik R.,; Palka, Joseph T.,; Piano, Ennio,; Rangaraju, Sandeep Kumar,; Roberts, Gavin,; Romitti, Martin,; Simonides, Ion G.,; Tannery, Frederick,; Weber, Jeremy G.,; White, Mark C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Deitrick, Sabina E.,; Murtazashvili, Ilia,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 p.) :; 5 maps, 5 diagrams, 16 charts

When Fracking Comes to Town traces the response of local communities to the shale gas revolution. Rather than cast communities as powerless to respond to oil and gas companies and their landmen, it shows that communities have adapted their local rules and regulations to meet the novel challenges accompanying unconventional gas extraction through fracking. The multidisciplinary perspectives of this volume's essays tie together insights from planners, legal scholars, political scientists, and economists. What emerges is a more nuanced perspective of shale gas development and its impacts on municipalities and residents. Unlike many political debates that cast fracking in black and white terms, this volume's contributors embrace the complexity of local responses to fracking. States adapted legal institutions to meet the new challenges posed by this energy extraction process while under-resourced municipal officials and local planning offices found creative ways to alleviate pressure on local infrastructure and reduce harmful effects of fracking on the environment. The essays in When Fracking Comes to Town tell a story of community resilience with the rise and decline of shale gas production.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beyond the Boom -- Part I. GOVERNANCE -- 1. The Shale Boom in Historical Perspective -- 2. Local Jurisdictions and Variations in State Law in the Marcellus Shale Region -- 3. How the Legal Framework of Fracking in Appalachia Disserves the Poor -- 4. Framing Fracking through Local Lenses -- Part II. PLANNING -- 5. Using Boomtown Models to Understand the Consequences of Fracking -- 6. Hydraulic Fracturing and Boomtown Planning in Western North Dakota -- 7. Local Planning in Beaver County and the Shell Cracker Plant -- 8. The Resource Conflict and the Local Economic Trade-Offs of Fracking -- Part III. ECONOMIC IMPACT -- 9. Local Labor Markets and Shale Gas -- 10. Shale Energy and Regional Economic Development Impacts in Northwest Pennsylvania -- 11. The Boom, the Bust, and the Cost of the Cleanup -- 12. Private and Public Economic Impacts of Fracking in Wyoming -- 13. An Economic and Policy Analysis of Shale Gas Well Bonds -- Conclusion: Lessons and Extensions -- Contributors -- Index