Amity and Prosperity:
a Story of Energy in Two American Towns by Eliza Griswold
5 stars
This is a book that I will be thinking about for a long time
to come. The author investigates
fracking in one rural community as two families deal with the environmental
contamination that affects their water and air from the process of natural gas
extraction. This isn’t an easy answer
kind of story. The fracking boom in
these rural communities is on the one hand adding jobs and money where it is
much needed, on the other hand it is not being done completely responsibly and the
people who can least afford to are suffering.
I will say that it would be much easier to see two sides to this story
if the gas companies and many government officials didn’t behave so entirely
inhumanely. This is an important book
and I hope that these stories keep getting told because it is the only way to
add accountability to corporations that believe they need none. I received a digital ARC of this book through
NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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