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Ladataan... The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack ZoneTekijä: Seamus McGraw
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This book is great on so many levels! Whether you are interested in the environmental issue, the Marcellus Shale or that area of the country, big corporations dealings with individuals, or real life stories of American life, this book is for you. Seamus McGraw is the perfect person to write this story! His natural storytelling ability, extensive research and the fact he is from the area make this an informative and interesting read. This account of the fracking of the Marcellus shale, one of the largest sources of natural gas in the world, is delivered in a not too technical way and gives us a peek at the lives of many interesting individuals as they deal with the companies vying to lease their land for drilling. It lets us see the predrilling negotiations as well as the consequences and postdrilling actions. ( ) This book is great on so many levels! Whether you are interested in the environmental issue, the Marcellus Shale or that area of the country, big corporations dealings with individuals, or real life stories of American life, this book is for you. Seamus McGraw is the perfect person to write this story! His natural storytelling ability, extensive research and the fact he is from the area make this an informative and interesting read. This account of the fracking of the Marcellus shale, one of the largest sources of natural gas in the world, is delivered in a not too technical way and gives us a peek at the lives of many interesting individuals as they deal with the companies vying to lease their land for drilling. It lets us see the predrilling negotiations as well as the consequences and postdrilling actions. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
"The End of Country is the compelling story about the epic battle for control of one of the richest natural gas deposits the world has ever known: the Marcellus Shale, worth more than one trillion dollars. In a remote northeastern corner of Pennsylvania, an intense conflict begins, pitting the forces of corporate America against a community of stoic, low-income homesteaders, determined to acquire their fair share of the windfall--but not at the cost of their values or their way of life. Though the natural gas is extracted through a controversial process known as hydrofracking, many couldn't resist the offer to lease their land in exchange for the promise of untold riches. For years, this part of the world was invisible to all but the farmers, urban transplants, and small landholders who called it home. But journalist Seamus McGraw, a native of the region whose own mother was one of the first to receive a leasing offer, opens a window on a stiff-necked group of Pennsylvanians as they try, with little guidance or protection from the state or anyone else, to balance the promise and the peril of this discovery. Along the way, McGraw introduces us to a host of colorful characters, from a gas company land agent with a Green Beret to a wizened quarryman with an old coonhound, a .22 rifle, and an unerring sense of right and wrong who leads a personal crusade to police the gas company's operations. The cutthroat dash by petrodollar billionaires to secure drilling leases will make some poor residents rich, and put the entire community at risk of having its land tainted by toxic chemicals and its water supply contaminated by gas. Above all, it will test the character of everyone in the community as they fight against 'the end of country.'" -- Amazon.com. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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