Voters to choose
This letter refers to the latest mass mailing from the Denton Chamber of Commerce with statements that are pro-fracking, as well as inaccurate and misleading.
In regards to the upcoming vote on the fracking ban, I can only comment from a personal point of view, but tell me why in the last two and a half years since the growing development of the gas well drilling in my area of town (near Bonnie Brae and UNT) I have developed pneumonia, two major pulmonary infections and long-term COPD symptoms.
I have always been a healthy and active person for my age, and up until last year rode my three-wheel bike around town every day.
The results of fracking may never be truly realized by most people for another 20 years and by then, of course, it will be too late. But for the sake of city of Denton residents, a vote to ban gas well fracking should be a necessity and not a choice.
If the true interests of the Chamber of Commerce were in the health of the residents and the positive growth of the community, it should be up to the voters to make that choice.
Nancy Fitz-Gerald Viens,
Denton
