When fracking comes to town : governance, planning, and economic impacts of the US shale boom / / edited by Sabina E. Deitrick and Ilia Murtazashvili [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910806978003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022
• ISBN: 1-5017-6098-X; 1-5017-6101-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 302 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Cornell scholarship online
• Disciplina: 338.272850973
• Soggetti: Hydraulic fracturing - Economic aspects - United States; Hydraulic fracturing - Government policy - United States; Hydraulic fracturing - Law and legislation - United States; Hydraulic fracturing - Social aspects - United States; Shale gas industry - Economic aspects - United States; Shale gas industry - Government policy - United States; Shale gas industry - Law and legislation - United States; Shale gas industry - Social aspects - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: beyond the boom -- The shale boom in historical perspective -- Local jurisdictions and variation in state law in the Marcellus Shale region -- How the legal framework of fracking in Appalachia disserves the poor -- Framing fracking through local lenses -- Using boomtown models to understand the consequences of fracking -- Hydraulic fracturing and boomtown planning in western North Dakota -- Local planning and the Shell cracker plant -- The resource conflict and the local tradeoffs of fracking -- Local labor markets and shale gas -- Shale energy and regional economic development impacts in northwest Pennsylvania -- The boom, the bust, and the cost of the cleanup -- Private and public economic impacts of fracking in Wyoming -- An economic and policy analysis of shale gas well bonds -- Conclusion: lessons and extensions.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'When Fracking Comes to Town' traces the response of local communities to the shale gas revolution. Rather than cast communities as powerless to respond to oil and gas companies and their landmen, it shows that communities have adapted their local rules and regulations to meet the novel challenges accompanying unconventional gas extraction through fracking. The multidisciplinary perspectives of this volume's essays tie together insights from planners, legal scholars, political scientists and economists.