Amity and Prosperity

Posted on 12 November 2017 by Eliza Griswold

Prize winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold s Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism and a devastating indictment of energy politics in America.Stacey Haney, a lifelong resident of Amity, Pennsylvania, is struggling to support her children when the fracking boom comes to town Like most of her neighbors, she sees the energy companies payments as a windfall Soon trucks are rumbling down her unpaved road and a fenced off fracking site rises on adjacent land But her annoyance gives way to concern and then to fear as domestic animals and pets begin dying and mysterious illnesses strike her family despite the companies insistence that nothing is wrong.Griswold masterfully chronicles Haney s transformation into an unlikely whistle blower as she launches her own investigation into corporate wrongdoing As she takes her case to court, Haney inadvertently reveals the complex rifts in her community and begins to reshape its attitudes toward outsiders, corporations, and the federal government Amity and Prosperity uses her gripping and moving tale to show the true costs of our energy infrastructure and to illuminate the predicament of rural America in the twenty first century. Download Amity and Prosperity – kino-fada.fr This scientific and legal drama recounts the harrowing ordeal of several families suffering terribly from toxic chemicals leaching from storage pools of fracking waste into their drinking water and into the air in western PennsylvaniaNew Yorker staff writer and journalist Eliza Griswold has excellent instincts for a story and she has honed her skills so that unwieldy real life is put into a clear timeline we not only understand, we are desperate to learn the outcome It is nearly impossible This scientific and legal drama recounts the harrowing ordeal of several families suffering terribly from toxic chemicals leaching from storage pools of fracking waste into their drinking water and into the air in western PennsylvaniaNew Yorker staff writer and journalist Eliza Griswold has excellent instincts for a story and she has honed her skills so that unwieldy real life is put into a clear timeline we not only understand, we are desperate to learn the outcome It is nearly impossible to imagine this kind of deceit and...There were other impacts from the fracking boom and the Haneys were feeling them Over the course of eight years, as Eliza Griswold tracks this family in this powerful book, they lose their health, their animals, their house, and their trust in just about everyone except a pair of crusading lawyers who tilt at the windmills of industry and the government agencies that should be protecting them.Amity and Prosperity is the kind of propulsive read that marks our great story telling journalist write There were other impacts from the fracking boom and the Haneys were feeling them Over the course of eight years, as Eliza Griswold tracks this family in this powerful book, they lose their health, their animals, their house, and their trust in just about everyone except a pair of crusading lawyers who tilt at the windmills of industry and the government agencies that should be protecting them.Amity and Prosperity is the kind of propulsive read that marks our great story telling journalist writers today Griswold uses her extensive visits to the region and understanding of this one family to tell a story that is much larger She is telling us about small things like county fairs, hard working single mothers, the ties that bind together neighbors...My rating may be somewhat skewed because I was engrossed by the story of how a new extraction industry impacted the people I went to middle and high school with Some of the non sequiturs in the story telling annoyed me, but the writing captures what I know to be true about the people of Amity and southern Washington County Amity and Prosperity lays out the real challenges and conflicts facing Americans in resource rich but economically challenged regions of the country Unfortunately, it is cl My rating may be somewhat skewed because I was engrossed by the story of how a new extraction industry impacted the people I went to middle and high school with Some ...If you live around Pittsburgh, you need to read this book.It reads like a novel, following one family who lost a sacrifice for extractive industries The book lays out how daily hardships, even small ones, can add up to destroy a home Lots of Pittsbur...A powerful, revealing look at how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one of its lifelong residents brought national attention to the story.I don t even know where to start It is shocking to me that this kind of systematic failure by Government to protect its own citizens is taking place in America This is the kind of thing that happens in third world countries, not here in our own backyard While I fully realize Amity and Prosperitycertainly has an agenda, the blatant disregard by government agencies, local government and corporations coupled with the general lack of public outcry should make everyone angry I still cannot wrap I don t even know where to start It is shocking to me that this kind of systematic failure by Government to protect its own citizens is taking place in America This is the kind of thing that happens in third world countries, not here in our own backyard While I fully realize Amity and Prosperitycerta...This was probablyof a 4.5 Great book, sad frustrating story but well told.A very well written book I learned a lot about fracking Certainly not as harmless as we are led to believe The author did not beat us over the head with science Some of course, but the main focus of the book was about the personal struggles of those involved with this ecological ...Natural gas was supposed to be a gateway to clean energy a move toward making the United States less dependent on foreign oil Many of the people who live in southwestern Pennsylvania atop the rich Marcellus Shale, saw fracking for natural gas as an economic life line The coal industry was dying, steel was already gone and the Appalachian community was mired in hardship Suddenly, an out of state energy company was moving ...Similar story to Erin Brockovich, you know who the good and bad guys are right from the start of the book This is a true story of the plight and the fight of one family in particular in a small farming community in southwestern Pennsylvania to which the big money of fracking has come The author places this story within the political context of the last 10 years in our country, with regard to issues like energy, health care and government roles and presidents presidential candidates platform Similar story t...

12 November 2017

Eliza Griswold