Industry Blames College Voters for Denton Fracking Ban
![A gas well last fracked in March sits less than 400 feet from a home in Denton, which just became Texas' first city to ban fracking.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206081741im_/https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.texastribune.org/media/images/2014/07/24/FrackingDenton00002_jpg_312x176_crop_q100.jpg)
College students foiled the will of permanent residents in Denton's vote to halt hydraulic fracking, the ban's opponents claim. The Tribune crunched the numbers, and found the argument difficult to support.
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