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- Title
Governing Unconventional Oil and Gas Extraction: The Case of Pennsylvania.
- Authors
Chalfant, Brian Alexander; Corrigan, Caitlin C.
- Abstract
Over the past decade, directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing enabled an unconventional oil and gas extraction (UOGE) boom in many regions of the United States, including parts of Pennsylvania. This revolution has created serious concerns about the capability of existing institutions to govern important societal outcomes associated with UOGE. We present a conceptual framework for assessing key societal outcomes influenced by UOGE governance. In applying this framework to Pennsylvania, we discern certain institutional strengths that have allowed the Commonwealth to reap appreciable short‐term economic growth from rich resource endowments. We also find, however, that several institutional weaknesses have allowed costs externalized to the environment, public health, and community integrity to offset some proportion of those economic benefits. Likewise, we find that governance of UOGE in Pennsylvania has contributed to a bifurcated sociopolitical landscape wherein adversarial coalitions dispute the legitimacy of the industry and its governance.
- Subjects
GAS well hydraulic fracturing; OIL well drilling; GAS well drilling; ECONOMIC development; PENNSYLVANIA state politics &; government
- Publication
Review of Policy Research, 2019, Vol 36, Issue 1, p75
- ISSN
1541-132X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ropr.12319