Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling (Urban and industrial environments)
by Gullion, Jessica Smartt, 1972-
Summary
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. There are so many lo... Full description
- Oil and gas development
- A brief overview of natural gas drilling in Texas
- Activists' concerns about health
- A lack of competent guardians
- Reluctant activists
- Epistemic privilege
- Performative environmentalism
- (In)visibility in the gas field.