". . .we are learning that a community engaged is a community empowered."
Terry Tempest Williams
FwCanDo was formed by a small group of concerned citizens in September 2005 in response to natural gas drilling activities encroaching on our neighborhoods. We believe that gas drilling and related activities are a threat to people, property and wildlife.
![Explosion](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106195701im_/http://www.fwcando.org/sites/default/files/Exploding%20well%20copy.jpg)
We are concerned, among other things, with the following:
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- Property values
- Neighborhood depreciation
- Air pollution
- Water pollution
- Soil contamination
- Noise and light pollution
- Health and safety
- Increased crime and traffic congestion