The Political Economy of Local Fracking Bans

Joshua Hall, Christopher Shultz and E. Frank Stephenson
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Christopher Shultz: West Virginia University, Department of Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics

No 15-37, Working Papers from Department of Economics, West Virginia University

Abstract: Concerns about harmful effects arising from the increased use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract underground fuel resources has led to efforts to ban the practice. Many townships in western New York, which lies above the gas-rich Marcellus shale formation, have enacted bans or moratoria. Using spatial econometric techniques, we examine factors related to townships' choice to adopt fracking bans and document the importance of spatial dependence when analyzing fracking bans. We find education levels, the poverty rate, and veterans groups are associated with an increased probability of a township banning or putting a moratorium on fracking.

Keywords: fracking bans; spatial autocorrelation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H73 Q48 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2015-09
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