Pedaling the Sacrifice Zone: Teaching, Writing, & Living Above the Marcellus Shale

by James S. Guignard

Before the dust settles, as many as 100,000 natural gas wells may be drilled into the Marcellus Shale on more than 20,000 well pads in Pennsylvania. Living on seven acres above the shale, Jimmy Guignard tells his story as an English professor grappling with the meaning of place and the power of words as he watches the rural landscape his family calls home be transformed into an industrial sacrifice zone. From the vantage point of an avid and experienced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162349351X
• ISBN13: 9781623493516
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.0"