Communication Design Quarterly May 2019 Open Access

Rhetoric, risk, and hydraulic fracturing: one landowner's perspective

Brian Ballentine

Abstract

Claims for America's potential for energy independence are substantiated largely thanks to advancements in an extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing or "fracking." This article focuses on the negotiations among individual landowners and oil and gas companies as they enter into leasing agreements to permit fracking. The author draws on his own experiences as a landowner in the Marcellus and Utica shale region. Of primary concern is how landowners construct their own understanding of risk amidst a network of local, regional, and global actors. Landowner and oil and gas company relationships are analyzed using theories of rhetoric and risk communication.

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Communication Design Quarterly
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2019-05-10
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10.1145/3331558.3331563
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