An Article Every North Texas Elected Official Needs to Read

"This is heavy industrial mining. That's what it is," concludes Arlington resident Elizabeth Lane, who lives next door to a natural gas well and is quoted in a new story on North Texas fracking by Shelley Hawes Pate in this month's edition of Dallas Child (p. 26). "DRILLING FOR DOLLARS" is one of the best stories about local fracking you'll read lately because it takes the debate away from the abstractions of academia and government and puts it squarely in the experience of people on the ground. People who were not Sierra Club members before they started feeling sick or their lives disrupted by gas mining. People who have absolutely no motive to go after big business or polluters just for the fun of it. Go out right now and buy a copy and share it with friends. Then put it in an envelope and mail it to one or more members of the Dallas City Council.