Friday, April 25, 2014

close to home: court case on the environmental effects of fracking

LA Times reporting on recent court case in Dallas in which the jury awarded the family close to $3 million in damages from the air and water contamination caused by fracking. The family lives in Decatur, 30 miles from Denton. http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-79999980/

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  1. “I’m increasingly attracted by the idea that there can be at least small pockets where life and character and beauty and meaning continue. If I could help protect one of those from destruction, maybe that would be enough. Maybe it would be more than most people do."
    - Paul Kingsnorth

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  2. map of active gas well in Denton:
    http://www.cityofdenton.com/departments-services/departments-g-p/gas-well-inspections/gas-well-sites

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