Fracking the Neighborhood: Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling

by Jessica Smartt Gullion

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262029766
• ISBN13: 9780262029766
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher