When Fracking Comes to Town : : Governance, Planning, and Economic Impacts of the US Shale Boom /

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

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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 acc...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (318 p.) :; 5 maps, 5 diagrams, 16 charts
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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

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