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Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling / Jessica Smartt Gullion.

by Gullion, Jessica Smartt, 1972- author.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, c2015.

Gas wells -- Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects -- United States.

Urban pollution -- United States.

Environmentalism.

Urban ecology (Sociology)

9780262029766 (hardcover : alk. paper)

0262029766 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Urban and industrial environments.

xiv, 191 pages ; 24 cm.

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 local cases of cancer that the elementary school starts a cancer support group. In this book, Jessica Smartt Gullion examines what happens when natural gas extraction by means of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," takes place not on wide-open rural land but in a densely populated area with homes, schools, hospitals, parks, and businesses. Gullion focuses on fracking in the Barnett Shale, the natural-gas--rich geological formation under the Dallas--Fort Worth metroplex. She gives voice to the residents -- for the most part educated, middle class, and politically conservative -- who became reluctant anti-drilling activists in response to perceived environmental and health threats posed by fracking. --Publisher

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