Differences in Public Perceptions and Leaders' Perceptions on Hydraulic Fracturing and Shale Development
Differences in Public Perceptions and Leaders' Perceptions on Hydraulic Fracturing and Shale Development
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DOI：
10.1177/0731121414567355
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发表时间：
2015-09-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Leonard, Charles
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作者：
Crowe, Jessica;Silva, Tony;Leonard, Charles
新技术和不断上涨的能源价格导致许多能源公司在美国农村投资大量资金。能源公司最近的大部分关注点都集中在页岩油和天然气的开发上。我们研究了支持和反对页岩油气开发水平的差异，建立在增长机器联盟，污染工业综合体和环境正义的文献基础上。具体来说，我们研究了政府领导人和公众谁居住在新奥尔巴尼页岩发挥在伊利诺伊州南部和西北肯塔基州以上的页岩开发的不同框架。结合访谈、调查和参与者观察数据，我们发现政府官员强调经济增长，许多人支持页岩开发。虽然大多数政府领导人声称，他们的社区对页岩开发没有重大分歧，但我们发现公众是分裂的，存在着一个大型的反页岩开发联盟。
New technologies and rising energy prices have resulted in many energy companies investing significant amounts of capital in rural America. Much of the recent focus of energy companies has been on the development of shale oil and natural gas. We examine the differences in levels of support and opposition to shale oil and gas development, building on the literatures of the growth-machine coalition, polluter-industrial complex, and environmental justice. Specifically, we examine different frames of shale development held by government leaders and the public who reside above the New Albany shale play in Southern Illinois and Northwest Kentucky. Using a combination of interview, survey, and participant observation data, we find that government officials emphasize economic growth and many support shale development. While most government leaders claimed that there was not a major division in their communities about shale development, we found the public to be split, with a large countercoalition to shale development in existence.