The Shale Renaissance: How Fracking Has Changed Pennsylvania in the Twenty-First Century

by Soren Jordan, Jonathan M. Fisk, David Allen Good, et al.

Although a technique for hydraulic fracturing--more commonly known as fracking--was developed and implemented in the 1970s in Texas, fracking of the Marcellus Shale formation that stretches from West Virginia through Pennsylvania to New York did not begin in earnest until the twenty-first century. Unconventional natural gas production via fracking has ignited debate, challenged regulators, and added to the complexity of twenty-first-century natural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822947366
• ISBN13: 9780822947363
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 8.4"