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"Environmental and Health Issues in Unconventional Oil and Gas Development offers a series of authoritative perspectives from varied viewpoints on key issues relevant in the use of directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, providing a timely presentation of requisite information on the implications of these technologies for those connected to unconventional oil and shale gas development. Utilizing expertise from a range of contributors in academia, non-governmental organizations, and the oil and gas industry, Environmental and Health Issues in Unconventional Oil and Gas Development is an essential resource for academics and professionals in the oil and gas, environmental, and health and safety industries as well as for policy makers."--

Hydraulic fracturing --- Environmental aspects. --- Health aspects. --- Fracking (Engineering) --- Fracturing, Hydraulic --- Hydrofracking --- Hydraulic engineering --- Rock mechanics

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Running from southern West Virginia through eastern Ohio, across central and northeast Pennsylvania, and into New York through the Southern Tier and the Catskills, the Marcellus Shale formation underlies a sparsely populated region that features striking landscapes, critical watersheds, and a struggling economic base. It also contains one of the world's largest supplies of natural gas, a resource that has been dismissed as inaccessible-until recently. Technological developments that combine horizontal drilling with hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") have removed physical and economic barriers to extracting hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of gas from bedrock deep below the Appalachian basin. Beginning in 2006, the first successful Marcellus gas wells by Range Resources, combined with a spike in the value of natural gas, spurred a modern-day gold rush-a "gas rush"-with profound ramifications for environmental policy, energy markets, political dynamics, and the lives of the people living in the Marcellus region. Under the Surface is the first book-length journalistic overview of shale gas development and the controversies surrounding it.Control over drilling rights is at stake in the heart of Marcellus country-northeast Pennsylvania and central New York. The decisions by landowners to work with or against the companies-and the resulting environmental and economic consequences-are scrutinized by neighbors faced with similar decisions, by residents of cities whose water supply originates in the exploration area, and by those living across state lines with differing attitudes and policies concerning extraction industries. Wilber's evenhanded treatment gives a voice to all constituencies, including farmers and landowners tempted by the prospects of wealth but wary of the consequences, policymakers struggling with divisive issues, and activists coordinating campaigns based on their respective visions of economic salvation and environmental ruin. Wilber describes a landscape in which the battle over the Marcellus ranges from the very local-yard signs proclaiming landowners' allegiances for or against shale gas development-to often conflicting municipal, state, and federal legislation intended to accelerate, delay, or discourage exploration.For millions of people with a direct stake in shale gas exploration in the Marcellus or any number of other emerging shale resources in the United States and worldwide, or for those concerned about the global energy outlook, Under the Surface offers a worthwhile and engaging look at the issues.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --- Industries / Energy --- Shale gas industry --- Hydraulic fracturing --- Business & Economics --- Industries --- Marcellus Shale. --- Fracking (Engineering) --- Fracturing, Hydraulic --- Hydrofracking --- Marcellus Formation --- Gas industry --- Hydraulic engineering --- Rock mechanics

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Oil reservoir engineering --- Petroleum engineering --- Carbonate reservoirs --- Hydraulic fracturing --- Fracking (Engineering) --- Fracturing, Hydraulic --- Hydrofracking --- Hydraulic engineering --- Rock mechanics --- Reservoirs, Carbonate --- Hydrocarbon reservoirs

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Oil reservoir engineering. --- Hydraulic fracturing. --- Fracking (Engineering) --- Fracturing, Hydraulic --- Hydrofracking --- Hydraulic engineering --- Rock mechanics --- Petroleum engineering --- Hydrocarbon reservoirs --- Computer simulation. --- Reservoirs, Hydrocarbon --- Traps (Petroleum geology)

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This issue of Political power and social theory explores the changes in science associated with the rise of neoliberalism since the 1970s. The neoliberalization of science has complicated interactions among states, markets, and civil society, often in ways that challenge major assumptions underlying decades of research. The articles collected here break with older Mertonian sociologies of science and constructivist micro-sociologies of scientific knowledge to examine the meso-level problem of the changing institutional contexts of the scientific field as originally identified by Pierre Bourdieu. Papers presented in Part I extend Bourdieús relational approach to the broader set of interactions among scientific, regulatory, industry, and social movement fields. Part II extends Bourdieu's concern with order and the scientific habitus to the changing patterns of scientific practices under neoliberalism. By reconceptualizing the central problem for the social studies of science as the political sociological problem of field and inter-field dynamics, the collected papers chart an important theoretical agenda for future research in the study of science-society relations.

Comparative government. --- International relations --- Neoliberalism. --- Methodology. --- Neo-liberalism --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- International relations -- Methodology. --- Political science -- Philosophy. --- Political science. --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Sciences - General --- Liberalism --- Political science --- Political Science --- Political science & theory. --- Political ideologies. --- Society & social sciences. --- Science and state --- Science --- Pesticides. --- Climatology. --- Nutrition. --- Hydraulic fracturing. --- General. --- Social aspects. --- Fracking (Engineering) --- Fracturing, Hydraulic --- Hydrofracking --- Hydraulic engineering --- Rock mechanics --- Alimentation --- Food --- Nutrition --- Health --- Physiology --- Diet --- Dietetics --- Digestion --- Food habits --- Malnutrition --- Climate --- Climate science --- Climate sciences --- Science of climate --- Atmospheric science --- Economic poisons --- Agricultural chemicals --- Pests --- Poisons --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Science policy --- State and science --- Health aspects --- Control --- Equipment and supplies --- Government policy