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The Politics of Fracking - Regulatory Policy and Local Community Responses to Environmental Concerns (Paperback)
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The Politics of Fracking - Regulatory Policy and Local Community Responses to Environmental Concerns (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
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Over the last decade, the oil and gas industry has garnered a lot
of support from the United States federal and state governments in
the name of energy independence and economic prosperity. More
specifically, hydraulic fracturing or fracking is said to not only
make the production of affordable energy possible but also reduce
emissions of carbon dioxide by substituting coal with natural gas
in the utility sector. Behind the facade of many socio-economic and
political benefits, the process of fracking causes serious
environmental concerns. Dismissing the negative externalities of
fracking simply raises the question, to what extent have
communities close to fracking sites been adversely impacted by it?
In this book, Sarmistha R. Majumdar studies four communities close
to fracking well sites in Texas to help illustrate to what extent
fracking regulations have been developed in Texas and how effective
these regulations have been in safeguarding the interests of
individuals in local communities amidst the lure of economic gains
from the extraction of oil and natural gas from shale formations.
Majumdar has developed a model to show stage by stage community
actions to regain their quality of life and the consequences of
their actions, if any, on state and local regulations and
ordinances, and the oil and gas industry. This book will be an
important resource for scholars of environmental and natural
resource politics and policy in the United States.
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