Denton Council Punts Fracking Ban Proposal to Voters
DENTON – Voters will decide whether this North Texas college town will become the state's first city to ban hydraulic fracturing.
After a public hearing Tuesday night that stretched into Wednesday morning, the Denton City Council rejected a proposal to ban the method of oil and gas extraction inside the city, which sits on the edge of the gas-rich Barnett Shale. The 5-2 vote kicked the question to the city’s November ballot, the next step in a high-profile property rights clash that will likely be resolved outside of Denton.
“It’s a high-stakes game,” said Mayor Chris Watts, who ...
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Cheryl Weisser via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Good luck to the voters! They want to prevent earthquakes in their vicinity. Obviously, City Council there doesn't care.
Peggy Chenault via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Pls interview Steve Brown who is running for RRC this fall on this topic. Not many people realize the RRC has a lot of power re: fracking
Kathryn Berger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Money talks
Ashley Nina Vasquez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Kenneth Funk you may be able to use this :)
Ed De La Cruz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Good luck with that. Most people in Texas have been brainwashed by the oil and gas industry.
Neil Moyer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
City Council got no spine...
Sam Davis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Abbott and the state will take this right away from the City of Denton if they pass the ban. Oil and gas production are more important in their eyes than individual rights or overall health.
Wendy Franklin Burkett via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If there r earthquakes in the area I don't think it will stop at the county line & go around (oh they voted not to Frack here so we won't go through this county) . People seriously !!!
Adam Alexander via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Our economy runs on oil and gas. U hippies that dont agree get a bike or walk ur ass everywhere.
E. Quote
"When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.
… The necessity of self-preservation, therefore, now decrees our eternal political separation."
Has old time Texas ethic, as stated above, been changed to:
"... if you're anti-oil and gas, you're anti-Texas"
Tedi Elliott via Texas Tribune on Facebook
go Denton
Adam Alexander via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Most ppl there are here in west texas working anyway. Go west texas
Jeremy Sikes via Texas Tribune on Facebook
of you don't agree with it, then help stop it. don't drive a car, dont ride a bike (tires made from oil), dont buy any products in styrofoam, plastic, dont use pvc for water lines. they have a word for people who say one thing and do another.
Alice Burkhart via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Our economy had better learn to run on solar or wind, and electric cars, or Florida will finish sinking. Checked out south Miami lately?
Martha Sehorn Yocom via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Y'all fracking is nothing new. Been going on for years! Just hysterical people looking for something to fret about!
Lauren Stine via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hysterical people looking for something to fret about? Tell that to the citizens of Reno and Azle having earthquakes caused by the injection wells. Also, fracking is for natural gas, not genetic petroleum products like rubber.
Christine Steele via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The (one) problem is that so many of the wells are SO Close to homes...many are within city limits.
They stink, they are noisy, the trucks tear up the roads, the chemicals are Dangerous, they use thousands of gallons of WATER while we are on drought restrictions.......
If you absolutely have to have this kind of well,....Put the damn things Away from People's homes!!
Lauren Stine via Texas Tribune on Facebook
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Lauren Stine via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Not to mention the people lighting their well water on fire or having new "springs" piping up on their property with a chemical residue on top.
Gladys Spoerle via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Just come down to SweetHome tex. 77987
Amy LeFort via Texas Tribune on Facebook
No ban!
Judy Creech via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I would vote against a ban.
Trace Cody via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Now let's see... will Denton county (red-dominant) vote for or against its interest? This could be interesting.
Jim Baxa
The city would be sued in a moment if this happened, and the city would end up paying out big to those who hold mineral rights who would be barred from harvesting the oil and gas.
Storm Britten Ilouno via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'm holding my breath. Keep destroying the planet and our water supply. Yikes. What the.....
Ernest Rios via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Do people really want to buy oil and has from terrorists countries ?? How about paying 10.00 a gallon for gas and more than a million hard working Americans out of work. Not to mention the billions of dollars that these workers and their families are spending in your little desolate towns that were on the verge of being ghost towns until the boom hit !! Good with the bad! God bless us all !!!!!
Jeff Robert Hunt via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Stupid
Roy Waggoner via Texas Tribune on Facebook
No way it will ever pass. Almost a waste of ballot space.
Lauren Stine via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I bet they have which is why you see nothing wrong. Just keep cashing those checks. I am a resident of Azle and have been to the town hall meetings where people talk about all the damage done to their properties. The earthquakes started happening on a regular basis when the injection wells came online in 2008. When the industry you regulate is the one that pays you, it definitely is in your interest to say things like "hysterical people looking for things to fret about". Fracking is not the same as those old oil fields in west Texas.
Scott Womack via Texas Tribune on Facebook
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Monica Rojas via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hahahahahahaha. Idiots. Let's just walk everywhere and throw spitballs at each other. Ban everything. Lol.