LibGuides: Geology (GEOL): Mining, Drilling & Fracking

Books About Mining, Drilling & Fracking

Books located in the Stacks may be borrowed from the Library with your student I.D. card. To view electronic books from off-campus, enter the same login and password that you use to open your "Student Workday" account. The following titles are recommended for Geology.

Coal by Haugen, David.
Call Number: TP 325 .C5135 2007 Bethlehem & Monroe
ISBN: 9780737735918
Publication Date: 2007
Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History by Black, Brian.
Call Number: HD 9560.5 .B494 2012
ISBN: 9780742556546
Publication Date: 2012
Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting With Disaster by Brasch, Walter.
Call Number: HD 9581.2 .S53 B73 2013 Bethlehem & Monroe
ISBN: 9780942991161
Publication Date: 2013
The Fracking Truth by Faulkner, Chris.
Call Number: HD 9565 .F38 2014 Bethlehem & Monroe
ISBN: 9780985070373
Publication Date: 2014
Fractured Communities by Ladd, Anthony.
Call Number: HD 9565 Online
ISBN: 9780813587684
Publication Date: 2017
While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the 21st century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques -- more commonly known as "fracking" -- on local communities. In this book, author Anthony E. Ladd and other leading environmental sociologists present a set of crucial case studies analyzing the differential risk perceptions, socio-environmental impacts, and mobilization of citizen protest (or quiescence) surrounding unconventional energy development and hydraulic fracking in a number of key U.S. shale regions.
The Pipeline and the Paradigm by Avery, Samuel.
Call Number: TN 879.5 .A877 2013 Bethlehem
ISBN: 9780985574826
Publication Date: 2013

Government Documents

The Pennsylvania Bureau of Mining Programs (part of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection) produces a variety of annual reports on coal mining activities across the Commonwealth. Click here to view documents covering the mining of both anthracite and bituminous coal in 2021, the most recent year for which data is available. For historical reports going back to 2011, click here.

Coal in Pennsylvania, by Edmunds, William.

Call number: QE 157 .A22 2002 Online

Publication date: 2002

Oil & Gas in Pennsylvania, by Flaherty, Kathy.

Call number: QE 157 .A22 F4 2014 Online

Publication date: 2014

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