Selling "fracking": Energy in Depth and the Marcellus Shale

Environmental Communication

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 288-306

  Matz, Jacob ^a   Renfrew, Daniel ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

blogs; environmental sociology; fracking; framing; Marcellus; public relations; shale gas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938285533     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2014.929157     Document Type: Article

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