{"id":45569,"date":"2019-04-22T11:21:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T16:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45569"},"modified":"2019-04-22T11:21:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T16:21:59","slug":"gas-driller-at-center-of-2019-pulitzer-winning-book-on-fracking-still-faces-legal-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45569","title":{"rendered":"Gas Driller at Center of 2019 Pulitzer-Winning Book on Fracking Still Faces Legal Battles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2019\/04\/21\/range-resources-amity-and-prosperity-pulitzer-pennsylvania-fracking\">Gas Driller at Center of 2019 Pulitzer-Winning Book on Fracking Still Faces Legal Battles<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/styles\/full_width_blog_image\/public\/blogimages\/girl-summit-elementary-playground-pennsylvania-fracking_credit-moms-clean-air-force_creative-commons_0.jpg?itok=vcqVT49x\" alt=\"Girl playing hopscotch at a playground near a fracking well pad in Pennsylvania\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eliza Griswold\u2019s book&nbsp;<em>Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America<\/em>&nbsp;examines the impacts of fracking in western Pennsylvania,&nbsp;and on Monday it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in General&nbsp;Nonfiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Griswold\u2019s book carefully refuses the birds-eye view of fracking\u2019s impacts \u2014 readers will find few state or national statistics \u2014 and instead presents the detailed results of seven years of on-the-ground reporting. It traces the story of one extended family in western Pennsylvania, a small handful of neighbors, and eventually the two-person legal team that took on their case, now covered by a sealed settlement with&nbsp;natural gas driller, Range Resources, which still faces additional related legal battles&nbsp;today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/31\/books\/review\/eliza-griswold-amity-and-prosperity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times Book Review called<\/a>&nbsp;<em>Amity and Prosperity<\/em>&nbsp;a \u201cvaluable, discomforting book.\u201d The 336-page narrative presents the Haney family\u2019s experiences as a story of failed systems, both legal and political, and the pummeling of small town residents in the Marcellus Shale, not only by the arrival of fracking, but also by the region\u2019s long history with extractive industries like timber, coal, and steel;&nbsp;by the national painkiller addiction epidemic;&nbsp;and by the extraordinary difficulties created by the decline of family&nbsp;farming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book begins at \u2014 and frequently returns to \u2014 the county fair\u2019s 4H competition, where Stacey Haney\u2019s son and daughter are entering \u201ctwo goats, two pigs and four rabbits.\u201d Griswold recounts how Stacey, a nurse, and her neighbors suffer as family pets, prize goats, and treasured horses become ill and die \u2014 and at the same time, Stacey\u2019s son Harley is suffering from a mysterious ailment that neither Stacey nor the doctors are initially able to\u00a0diagnose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Book Spoiler\u00a0Alert<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Note: the next two paragraphs contain spoilers that readers may wish to\u00a0avoid.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas Driller at Center of 2019 Pulitzer-Winning Book on Fracking Still Faces Legal Battles Eliza Griswold\u2019s book&nbsp;Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America&nbsp;examines the impacts of fracking in western Pennsylvania,&nbsp;and on Monday it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in General&nbsp;Nonfiction. Griswold\u2019s book carefully refuses the birds-eye view of fracking\u2019s impacts \u2014 readers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5317,331,412,11167],"class_list":["post-45569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-desmog-blog","tag-fracking","tag-hydraulic-fracturing","tag-sharon-kelly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45570,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45569\/revisions\/45570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}