| Pedaling the Sacrifice Zone: Teaching, Writing, & Living Above the Marcellus Shale Contributor(s): Guignard, James S. (Author), Killingsworth, M. Jimmie (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 162349351X ISBN-13: 9781623493516 Publisher: Texas A&M University Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Business & Economics | Industries - Energy |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2015012198 |
| Series: Seventh Generation: Survival, Sustainability, Sustenance in |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 8" (0.60 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Before the dust settles, as many as 100,000 natural gas wells may be drilled into the Marcellus Shale on more than 20,000 well pads in Pennsylvania. Living on seven acres above the shale, Jimmy Guignard tells his story as an English professor grappling with the meaning of place and the power of words as he watches the rural landscape his family calls home be transformed into an industrial sacrifice zone. From the vantage point of an avid and experienced cyclist, Guignard tracks the takeover, chalking up thousands of miles pedaling through Tioga and surrounding counties. Encountering increased truck traffic on the roads, crossing pipeline construction on the trails, and passing a growing number of flaring gas wells, the author's rides begin to shape his academic work in ways he found surprising and sobering. Juggling his roles as disinterested professor, anxious father and citizen, and reluctant activist, he reveals how the rhetoric of industry, politicians, and locals reshaped his understanding of teaching and his faith in the force of language. |