@article{1386097,
      author = {Gullion, Jessica Smartt,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386097},
      title = {Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and  natural gas drilling /},
      abstract = {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.},
      recid = {1386097},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages).},
}