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Frackers Have Launched an Aggressive Campaign to Kill Denton's Drilling Ban
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2014/10/denton_fracking_ban_campaign.php
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"They talked about the Obama administration being behind this, and linked Al Jazeera and Al-qaeda. And I had to give an opinion on different figures, if I was for or against them. They said something like, if you knew that Putin was in contact with the city to pass the ban, would you still support it? So they were setting up these preposterous links."
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"Some of the threats I've received have been from industry workers, people who worked in the industry. Companies incite this, by telling workers that we're trying to take their jobs and their livelihoods. I've taped them saying these things," she says. "I think the industry uses fear tactics against their employees and against the people who oppose them. That's one reason why people would decide to give to Earthworks rather than Frack Free Denton, because their names are not going to show up on campaign finance documents."
The well-funded counter campaign by drilling proponents is intimidating, and not a little discouraging: Next to looming billboards, daily mail campaigns, and substantial tv and radio air time, Frack Free Denton yard signs, t-shirts, and bumper stickers -- which have cropped up all over the city -- are flimsy by comparison. Yet the aggressiveness with which drilling advocates are targeting the anti-fracking movement indicates big-dollar companies are just as intimidated and perturbed by a potential ban.
"They're desperate. They have behaved so horribly in Denton. They have bullied people, mistreated people, and the people in Denton are tired of it," says Wilson. "But when you expose their dirty tactics, they're kind of like cockroaches -- they can't stand the light."
"They talked about the Obama administration being behind this, and linked Al Jazeera and Al-qaeda. And I had to give an opinion on different figures, if I was for or against them. They said something like, if you knew that Putin was in contact with the city to pass the ban, would you still support it? So they were setting up these preposterous links."
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"Some of the threats I've received have been from industry workers, people who worked in the industry. Companies incite this, by telling workers that we're trying to take their jobs and their livelihoods. I've taped them saying these things," she says. "I think the industry uses fear tactics against their employees and against the people who oppose them. That's one reason why people would decide to give to Earthworks rather than Frack Free Denton, because their names are not going to show up on campaign finance documents."
The well-funded counter campaign by drilling proponents is intimidating, and not a little discouraging: Next to looming billboards, daily mail campaigns, and substantial tv and radio air time, Frack Free Denton yard signs, t-shirts, and bumper stickers -- which have cropped up all over the city -- are flimsy by comparison. Yet the aggressiveness with which drilling advocates are targeting the anti-fracking movement indicates big-dollar companies are just as intimidated and perturbed by a potential ban.
"They're desperate. They have behaved so horribly in Denton. They have bullied people, mistreated people, and the people in Denton are tired of it," says Wilson. "But when you expose their dirty tactics, they're kind of like cockroaches -- they can't stand the light."
