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Fort Worth Shows Why So Many Towns Are Banning Fracking
Fort Worth Shows Why So Many Towns Are Banning Fracking | ThinkProgress
Fracking is bad. It pollutes the air and fucks with peoples health!
Several cities and counties in the U.S. have instituted bans or moratoria on the oil and gas extraction technique of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in recent years and Fort Worths experience with urban fracking shows why.
Fort Worth has been fracked to capacity, resident Don Young told DeSmog Blog. There is no turning back. Some days the air is so bad you cant see downtown.
Chesapeake Energy began offering $300 and a pizza party for owners of mineral rights in predominantly poor and working class African American neighborhoods in 2003 and encountered little resistance, DeSmog Blogreported. Now Fort Worth has around 2,000 wells.
Residents have been sickened by vapors from drilling operations, found their neighborhoods suddenly ruined by noise and fumes, and had their water sucked up by drilling operations in the middle of severe drought. Five sites were found in 2011 to be emitting pollution above state limits, according to a study commissioned by the Fort Worth City Council, and most of the 388 sites studied released visible emissions.
Right next door to Fort Worth, the Dallas city council is considering letting fracking start up in town with a vote likely to come next week, capping a three-year fight over the future of fracking in the city. Until recently, Dallas had rejected attempts to frack in town, but that stance seems to be over. Current debate is over the distance required between wells and homes or wells and other wells: 1,500 feet or 1,000.
Dallas fracking ordinance is being considered just as researchers from Southern Methodist University linked a series of Texas earthquakes to injection of fracking wastewater into the ground. The Fort Worth Basin hadnt experienced an earthquake prior to 2008, but 2009 and 2010 saw over 50 occur.
Fort Worth Shows Why So Many Towns Are Banning Fracking | ThinkProgress
Fracking is bad. It pollutes the air and fucks with peoples health!