Amity and prosperity : (Record no. 34851)

MARC details
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2017057605
ISBN
International Standard Book Number 9780374103118
ISBN
International Standard Book Number 0374103119
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Call number 363.730974882 GR AM
MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL AUTHOR
Authors Griswold, Eliza,
Dates 1973-
TITLE STATEMENT
Title Amity and prosperity :
Subtitle one family and the fracturing of America /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Eliza Griswold
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication New York :
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Date 2018.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 318 p. :
Other Details maps ;
Size 24 cm.
BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-315).
SUMMARY
Summary "Tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia--and one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking industry comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. Intrigued by reports of lucrative natural gas leases in her neighbors' mailboxes, she strikes a deal with a Texas-based energy company. Soon trucks begin rumbling past her farm, a fenced-off drill site rises on an adjacent hilltop, and domestic animals and pets start to die. When mysterious sicknesses begin to afflict her children, she appeals to the company for help. Its representatives insist that nothing is wrong. Alarmed by her children's illnesses, Haney joins with neighbors and a committed husband-and-wife legal team to investigate what's really in the water and air. Against local opposition, Haney and her allies doggedly pursue their case in court and begin to expose the damage that's being done to the land her family has lived on for centuries. Soon a community that has long been suspicious of outsiders faces wrenching new questions about who is responsible for redressing their ills. The faceless corporations that are poisoning the land? The environmentalists who fail to see their economic distress? A federal government that is mandated to protect but fails on the job? Drawing on seven years of immersive reporting, Griswold reveals what happens when an imperiled town faces a crisis of values--and a family wagers everything on an improbable quest for justice."--Book jacket.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading Hydraulic fracturing
General Political aspects
Geographic Pennsylvania
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading Gas wells
General Hydraulic fracturing
-- Environmental aspects
Geographic Amity (Washington County : Township)
-- Pennsylvania
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading Gas wells
General Hydraulic fracturing
-- Environmental aspects
Form Prosperity
Geographic Pennsylvania
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://uowd.box.com/s/i39ettqcup2pg9qlo98r9b1pdp6nmes1">https://uowd.box.com/s/i39ettqcup2pg9qlo98r9b1pdp6nmes1</a>
Public note Location Map
MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL AUTHOR
-- 22612
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
-- 24495
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
-- 24496
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
-- 24497
Holdings
Date last seen Full call number Barcode Price effective from Koha item type Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Withdrawn status Permanent location Current location Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition
06/11/2018 363.730974882 GR AM T0060932 06/11/2018 REGULAR   Dewey Decimal Classification       University of Wollongong in Dubai University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 06/01/2019 Kinokuniya