TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jerolmack,Colin
TI  - Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town 
SN  - 9780691220260
AV  - HD9581.U52 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Williamsport
KW  - Gas industry
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Hydraulic fracturing
KW  - Landowners
KW  - Oil and gas leases
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American politics
KW  - Appalachia
KW  - EarthAction
KW  - Greenpeace
KW  - Millionaire’s Row
KW  - Responsible Drilling Alliance
KW  - climate change
KW  - conservatives
KW  - culture wars
KW  - energy independence
KW  - environment
KW  - environmental contamination
KW  - environmental movement
KW  - environmentalism
KW  - ethnography
KW  - fracking pros and cons
KW  - fractivism
KW  - fractivists
KW  - hydraulic fracturing
KW  - land use law
KW  - land use
KW  - oil dependency
KW  - oil drilling
KW  - polarization
KW  - politics
KW  - property
KW  - red states
KW  - resource dilemmas
KW  - resource extraction
KW  - rural America
KW  - rustbelt
KW  - small-town America
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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 "up to heaven and down to hell," 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691220260?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691220260
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691220260/original
ER  -