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Author Griswold, Eliza, 1973- author.

Title Amity and Prosperity : one family and the fracturing of America / Eliza Griswold.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1855080~S1
Location Call No. Status
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  363.7309748 GRI    AVAILABLE
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Description xii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary Stacey Haney, a lifelong resident of Amity, Pennsylvania, is struggling to support her children when the fracking boom comes to town. Like most of her neighbors, she sees the energy companies' payments as a windfall. Soon trucks are rumbling down her unpaved road and a fenced-off fracking site rises on adjacent land. But her annoyance gives way to concern and then to fear as domestic animals and pets begin dying and mysterious illnesses strike her family--despite the companies' insistence that nothing is wrong. Griswold masterfully chronicles Haney's transformation into an unlikely whistle-blower as she launches her own investigation into corporate wrongdoing. As she takes her case to court, Haney inadvertently reveals the complex rifts in her community and begins to reshape its attitudes toward outsiders, corporations, and the federal government. Amity and Prosperity uses her gripping and moving tale to show the true costs of our energy infrastructure and to illuminate the predicament of rural America in the twenty-first century.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Gas wells -- Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Amity (Washington County : Township)
Gas wells -- Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Prosperity.
Amity (Washington County, Pa. : Township) -- Social conditions.
Prosperity (Pa.) -- Social conditions.
ISBN 9780374103118 (hardcover)
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