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Fractured communities : risk, impacts, and protest against hydraulic fracking in U.S. shale regions / edited by Anthony E. Ladd.

by Ladd, Anthony E., editor.

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2018

Nature, society, and culture.

xiii, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Natural gas fracking on public lands: the trickle-down impacts of Neoliberalism in Ohio's Utica shale region / Sherry Cable -- This (gas) land is your (truth) land? Documentary films and cultural fracturing in prominent shale communities / Ion Bogdan Vasi -- Disturbing the dead: community concerns over fracking below a cemetery in the Utica shale region / Carmel E. Price and James N. Maples -- Mobilizing against fracking: Marcellus shale protest in Pittsburgh / Suzanne Staggenborg -- Engines, sentinels, and objects: assessing the impacts of unconventional energy development on animals in the Marcellus shale region / Cameron Thomas Whitley -- Motivational frame disputes surrounding natural gas fracking in the Haynesville shale / Anthony E. Ladd -- Denial, disinformation, and delay: recreancy and induced seismicity in Oklahoma's shale plays / Tamara L. Mix and Dakota K.T. Raynes -- Contested Colorado: shifting regulations and public responses to unconventional oil production in the Niobrara shale region / Stephanie A. Malin, Stacia S. Ryder, and Peter M. Hall -- Citizen resistance to oil production and acid fracking in the Sunshine State / Patricia Widener -- Public participation and protest in the siting of liquefied natural gas terminals in Oregon / Hilary Boudet, Brittany Gaustad, and Trang Tran -- Conclusion: standing at the energy policy crossroads / Anthony E. Ladd.

"While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twenty-first century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques--more commonly known as "fracking"--Local communities. In Fractured Communities, Anthony E. Ladd and other leading environmental sociologists present a set of crucial case studies analyzing the differential risk perceptions, socio-environmental impacts, and mobilization of citizen protest (or quiescence) surrounding unconventional energy development and hydraulic fracking in a number of key U.S. shale regions. Fractured Communities reveals how this contested terrain is expanding, pushing the issue of fracking into the mainstream of the American political arena"---Provided by publisher.

"In Fractured Communities, sociologist Anthony Ladd and a roster of leading young (and some old) environmental sociologists present a set of crucial sociological case studies analyzing the differential risk perceptions, socio-environmental impacts, and mobilization of citizen protest (or quiescence) surrounding unconventional energy development and hydraulic fracking in a number of key U.S. shale regions (or source rock formations) across the country. Ladd and his contributors find that the rapid development of shale gas and oil reserves through high volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) methods has spawned a growing anti-fracking movement that has been gaining political clout and scientific credibility nationwide, especially since Josh Fox's academy award-nominated documentary Gasland was released in 2010. In shale communities across the country (e.g. the Marcellus, Barnett, Tuscaloosa, Utica, Monterey, Woodford, Eagle Ford, etc.), citizens have mobilized to express concerns or protest what they perceive as a wide range of negative socio-environmental impacts associated with unconventional energy development and fracking--particularly its threats to water, air, land, climate, public health, animals, and sustainable economic development. To date, over 475 community bans against fracking have been passed in 24 states, including cities like Pittsburgh, and statewide moratoriums are in effect in New York and Vermont. Additionally, national moratoriums exist in France, Ireland, Scotland, and Bulgaria, Pope Francis has publically declared his opposition to fracking, and debates over shale drilling are growing across the European Union, South Africa, South America, and Australia"---Provided by publisher.

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