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Author:
Jerolmack, Colin, author.
Title:
Up to heaven and down to hell : fracking, freedom, and community in an American town / Colin Jerolmack.
Publisher:
Princeton University Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
x, 317 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Subject:
Gas industry--Environmental aspects--Williamsport.--Williamsport.
Hydraulic fracturing--Environmental aspects--Williamsport.--Williamsport.
Oil and gas leases--Williamsport.--Williamsport.
Landowners--Williamsport.--Williamsport.
Environmentalism--Williamsport.--Williamsport.
Williamsport (Pa.)--Environmental conditions.
Ecology.
Environmentalism.
Gas industry--Environmental aspects.
Landowners.
Oil and gas leases.
Pennsylvania--Williamsport.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"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.
ISBN:
0691179034
9780691179032
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1193069020
LCCN:
2020045112
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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