A ballot initiative to ban fracking in Denton has put the North Texas city at the center of a nationwide debate over the safety of drilling, the money it produces and the role cities play in regulating it. As Election Day nears, the fight is growing fiercer. Read the full story at StateImpact Texas, and read Tribune reporter Jim Malewitz's previous coverage of the issue here.
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Edward Hartmann via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Any comments on the illegal electioneering being done by the fracking side?
Jeffery M. Cook via Texas Tribune on Facebook
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Joan Hardy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Why should citizens get to decide this? Very, very suspicious to me that oil and gas gets trump everything else.
Matthew Cowan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Any comments on the illegal electioneering being done by the anti-fracking side?
Adele Roberson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Do you also know that the Federal Elections Committee is investigating the Koch Brothers for handing out fliers telling Democrats the wrong dates, times and locations to appear at their polling stations to vote?
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