The Shale Renaissance: How Fracking Has Ignited Debate, Challenged Regulators, and Changed Pennsylvania in the Twenty-First Century

Fracking of the Marcellus Shale formation began in the twenty-first century, igniting debate and challenging regulators. A longitudinal study from 2000 to 2015 examines how natural resource management functions relative to regulatory actions, finding that factors such as state policy goals, elected officials, data availability, inspectors, front-line staff, and technology shape the use of specific regulatory tools and decisions.

Format: Hardback
Length: 268 pages
Publication date: 29 November 2022
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, was developed and implemented in the 1970s in Texas but did not become widely used in the Marcellus Shale formation until the twenty-first century. Unconventional natural gas production via fracking has ignited debate, challenged regulators, and added to the complexity of twenty-first-century natural resource management. A longitudinal study by Jonathan M. Fisk, Soren Jordan, and A. J. Good examined how the management of natural resources functions relative to specific regulatory actions, including inspections, identifying violations, and the use of specific regulatory tools. They found that factors such as state policy goals, elected officials, the availability of data, inspectors, front-line staff, and the use of technology shape the use of specific regulatory tools and decisions.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780822947363