Up to Heaven and Down to Hell : : Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town
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Introduction: Land of the Freehold -- Billtown -- Boomtown -- The Fracking Lottery -- My Land -- The Public/Private Paradox -- Indentured -- Unmoored -- Overruled -- Town and Country -- Our Land -- Conclusion: Bust and Beyond.
"As different as we all are in situations, needs, and views, we hold the world in common. In this brilliant ethnography, Colin Jerolmack vividly highlights this basic environmental conundrum with his compelling account of the local conflicts over fracking in the countryside around Williamsport, Pennsylvania"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: x, 317 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780691179032
0691179034
SUBJECTS
Gas industry -- Environmental aspects -- Williamsport.
Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects -- Williamsport.
Oil and gas leases -- Williamsport.
Landowners -- Williamsport.
Environmentalism -- Williamsport.
Williamsport (Pa.) -- Environmental conditions.