Banning Fracking, Vested wells, Denton City Regulations, and City Council meets with a Lobbyist
Channel: Preserve Denton
Date: 2014-10-07

Natural Gas Lobbyist comes to Denton Texas and City council asks some hard questions.

 This video help explain to some degree the difficulties that the city of Denton has been having with the gas well operators within the City limits.  The gist of the problem is that the operators are able to ignore modern day regulations because there drill sites are what they call "Vested", This basically means that they are grandfathered in using archaic regulations that were created before the industry had spread into the city limits and started affecting neighborhoods and Denton residents. 

During the July 15th Public hearing on the proposed ban on Fracking within the City Limits there were a several wonderful moments that offered insight in to the ongoing debate the City council had been having in regards to this topic. I was a little concerned that the city council wasn't very motivated to act on this topic, fortunately several members including the mayor proved me wrong with there killer statements in the segment provided here in this video. When It was all said and done the 10 to 11 hour city council meeting proved that several members of our city council were indeed very concerned by and also were defiantly paying attention to the problem. Even though it would have been nice to see the City Council ban Fracking them selves on that very night, no one truly thought it was going to happen.  Now those of us who support a ban of hydraulic Fracturing have the opportunity to make it happen through the power of a public vote. 

Frack Free Denton is where to go for the facts. http://frackfreedenton.com/

If interested in the full conversation please go to the provided link. http://denton-tx.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=989&meta_id= The speaker starts at 4:57:11.