Up to Heaven and Down to Hell (eBook)

Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town

Colin Jerolmack (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22026-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 personal. Up to Heaven and Down to Hell is a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking account of what happens when one of the most momentous decisions about the well-being of our communities and our planet-whether or not to extract shale gas and oil from the very land beneath our feet-is largely a private choice that millions of ordinary people make without the public's consent.The United States is the only country in the world where property rights commonly extend "e;up to heaven and down to hell,"e; which means that landowners have the exclusive right to lease their subsurface mineral estates to petroleum companies. Colin Jerolmack spent eight months living with rural communities outside of Williamsport as they confronted the tension between property rights and the commonwealth. In this deeply intimate book, he reveals how the decision to lease brings financial rewards but can also cause irreparable harm to neighbors, to communal resources like air and water, and even to oneself.Up to Heaven and Down to Hell casts America's ideas about freedom and property rights in a troubling new light, revealing how your personal choices can undermine your neighbors' liberty, and how the exercise of individual rights can bring unintended environmental consequences for us all.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.4.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 39 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Alabaster • American Politics • americans • Anadarko Petroleum • Apartment • apiary • Appalachia • Asceticism • Asthma • Bankruptcy • Basement • Big Government • blouse • Boot • Cancer Alley • carcinogen • ceiling • Chesapeake Energy • climate change • coal • Coal Mining • Combustion • common-pool resource • Compressor station • conservatives • Conspiracy Theory • country lane • Culture wars • Cynicism (contemporary) • Debasement • de facto • deindustrialization • Demography • Detector (radio) • Diesel engine • Diminishing Returns • disaster • Disconnection • Disgust • distrust • Doctrine • Drilling Rig • Drinking Water • driveway • Due Process • EarthAction • Elinor Ostrom • Eminent domain • Energy Independence • Energy Policy Act of 2005 • Engineering • Environment • environmental contamination • Environmentalism • Environmental issue • Environmentalist • environmental movement • ethnography • Externality • fallout shelter • family farm • Filling station • Floor plan • foreclosure • Fossil fuel • fracking pros and cons • fractivism • fractivists • fuel • Gas Flare • GasHole • GasLand • Gravel road • Greenhouse Gas • Greenpeace • Guarantee • Hagemeyer • Halliburton • Headline • hearth • Henry David Thoreau • Humidifier • Hydraulic Fracturing • Impact fee • Imprisonment • income • Individualism • Infrastructure • J. D. Vance • land use • land use law • lawyer • lease • Lessor (leasing) • Liberty • Lighting • Light pollution • Livelihood • Lockean Proviso • Loyalsock State Forest • methane • Millionaire’s Row • Mineral rights • Mining • misnomer • Mockumentary • Napalm • Natural gas • natural resource • odor • oil dependency • oil drilling • Old Loggers Path • Ownership • parking lot • pasture • Pathology • Patriotism • Payment • Pesticide • Petroleum industry • pickup truck • Pipeline Transport • plaintiff • plea • polarization • Politician • Politics • Pollutant • pollution • Precision Drilling • Princeton University Press • private sector • Privatization • property • Property Law • punishment • red states • Regulation • repeal • Republican Party (United States) • residence • resource dilemmas • Resource extraction • Responsible Drilling Alliance • right to property • roughneck • Royalty payment • Rural America • rustbelt • Rust Belt • Sake • salary • security guard • Sediment • Self-Governance • Self-Sufficiency • Severance tax • Shale Gas • shit • shortage • Slogan • slowdown • small-town america • smokehouse • Sovereignty • Spillover Effect • Split estate • State Forest • stipulation • Stove • Subsurface (software) • Supervisor • Tax • Terra Nullius • The Deed • The Individualist • The Public Interest • Tin ceiling • tire • Tom Corbett • topophilia • To the Earth • Toxin • Trading Post • Tragedy of the commons • Trail • Uncertainty • Unemployment • Upstate New York • wastewater • Water well • Wealth • Wellhead • Whiskey Rebellion
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22026-3 / 0691220263
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22026-0 / 9780691220260