Yellow Earth

Rich layers of shale oil are discovered under Yellow Earth, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. All hell breaks loose.

List of contents

EXPLORATION- we meet the players as the decision is made to drill the Bakken shale oil reserve

STIMULATION- people make commitments an take sides as the fracking begins

EXTRACTION- wells begins to pay off, a point of no return is reached

ABSQUATULATION- worldwide oil prices dip, the drillers leave as quickly as they came, somebody gets left holding the bag

About the author

John Sayles works as a fiction writer, screenwriter, actor and feature film director. His novel Union Dues (1978) was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Critics' Circle Award. He has written over a hundred screenplays and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has directed 18 feature films, with another, I Passed This Way, currently in progress. His films Matewan and Lone Star, as well as his previous novel A Moment in the Sun, are often used for instruction in History and American Studies courses. Yellow Earth is his fifth novel.

Summary

Rich layers of shale oil are discovered under Yellow Earth, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. All hell breaks loose.

Foreword

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Product details

• Authors: John Sayles, Sayles John
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2022
• EAN: 9781642597073
• ISBN: 978-1-64259-707-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Political, North Dakota, Indigenous Peoples, FICTION / Indigenous, Adventure / action fiction, FICTION / Indigenous / General