Under The Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, And The Fate Of The Marcellus Shale
by Tom Wilber /
2012 / English / PDF
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Tom Wilber has written a new chapter and epilogue covering
developments since the book's initial publication. Chief among
these are the home rule movement and accompanying social and
legal events leading up to an unprecedented ban of fracking in
New York state, and the outcome of the federal EPA's
investigation of water pollution just across the state border in
Dimock, Pennsylvania. The industry, with powerful political
allies, effectively challenged the federal government’s attempts
to intervene in drilling communities in Pennsylvania, Wyoming,
and Texas with water problems. But it met its match in a
grassroots movement―known as "fractivism"―that sprouted from
seeds sown in upstate New York community halls and grew into one
of the state’s most influential environmental movements since
Love Canal.
,
Tom Wilber has written a new chapter and epilogue covering
developments since the book's initial publication. Chief among
these are the home rule movement and accompanying social and
legal events leading up to an unprecedented ban of fracking in
New York state, and the outcome of the federal EPA's
investigation of water pollution just across the state border in
Dimock, Pennsylvania. The industry, with powerful political
allies, effectively challenged the federal government’s attempts
to intervene in drilling communities in Pennsylvania, Wyoming,
and Texas with water problems. But it met its match in a
grassroots movement―known as "fractivism"―that sprouted from
seeds sown in upstate New York community halls and grew into one
of the state’s most influential environmental movements since
Love Canal.
Wilber weaves a narrative tracing the consequences of shale gas
development in northeast Pennsylvania and central New York
through the perspective of various stakeholders. Wilber's
evenhanded treatment explains how the revolutionary process of
fracking has changed both access to our domestic energy reserves
and the lives of people living over them.
Wilber weaves a narrative tracing the consequences of shale gas
development in northeast Pennsylvania and central New York
through the perspective of various stakeholders. Wilber's
evenhanded treatment explains how the revolutionary process of
fracking has changed both access to our domestic energy reserves
and the lives of people living over them.
He gives a voice to all constituencies, including farmers and
landowners tempted by the prospects of wealth but wary of the
consequences; policymakers struggling with divisive issues
concerning free enterprise, ecology, and public health; and
activists coordinating campaigns based on their respective
visions of economic salvation and environmental ruin. Throughout
the book, Wilber illustrates otherwise dense policy and legal
issues in human terms and shows how ordinary people can affect
extraordinary events.
He gives a voice to all constituencies, including farmers and
landowners tempted by the prospects of wealth but wary of the
consequences; policymakers struggling with divisive issues
concerning free enterprise, ecology, and public health; and
activists coordinating campaigns based on their respective
visions of economic salvation and environmental ruin. Throughout
the book, Wilber illustrates otherwise dense policy and legal
issues in human terms and shows how ordinary people can affect
extraordinary events.
