Up to Heaven and Down to Hell : : Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town / / Colin Jerolmack.

A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversyShale gas extraction—commonly known as fracking—is often portrayed as an energy revolution that will transform the American economy and geopolitics. But in greater Williamsport, Pennsylvania, fracking is person...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 39 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • introduction. Land of the Freehold
  • chapter 1. Billtown
  • chapter 2. Boomtown
  • chapter 3. The Fracking Lottery
  • chapter 4. My Land
  • chapter 5. The Public/Private Paradox
  • chapter 6. Indentured
  • chapter 7. Unmoored
  • chapter 8. Overruled
  • chapter 9. Town and Country
  • chapter 10. Our Land
  • conclusion. Bust and Beyond
  • Notes
  • Index