Fractured Communities: Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions
In: Nature, Society, and Culture
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Energy Matters / Ladd, Anthony E. -- 1. Natural Gas Fracking on Public Lands: The Trickle-down Impacts of Neoliberalism in Ohio's Utica Shale Region -- 2. This (Gas) Land Is Your (Truth) Land? Documentary Films and Cultural Fracturing in Prominent Shale Communities / Vasi, Ion Bogdan -- 3. Disturbing the Dead: Community Concerns over Fracking below a Cemetery in the Utica Shale Region / Price, Carmel E. / Maples, James N. -- 4. Mobilizing against Fracking: Marcellus Shale Protest in Pittsburgh / Staggenborg, Suzanne -- 5. Engines, Sentinels, and Objects: Assessing the Impacts of Unconventional Energy Development on Animals in the Marcellus Shale Region / Whitley, Cameron Thomas -- 6 Motivational Frame Disputes Surrounding Natural Gas Fracking in the Haynesville Shale / Ladd, Anthony E. -- 7. Denial, Disinformation, and Delay: Recreancy and Induced Seismicity in Oklahoma's Shale Plays / Mix, Tamara L. / Raynes, Dakota K. T. -- 8. Contested Colorado: Shifting Regulations and Public Responses to Unconventional Oil Production in the Niobrara Shale Region / Malin, Stephanie A. / Ryder, Stacia S. / Hall, Peter M. -- 9. Citizen Resistance to Oil Production and Acid Fracking in the Sunshine State / Widener, Patricia -- 10. Public Participation and Protest in the Siting of Liquefied Natural Gas Terminals in Oregon / Boudet, Hilary / Gaustad, Brittany / Tran, Trang -- Conclusion: Standing at the Energy Policy Crossroads / Ladd, Anthony E. -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index