Texas: Abbott signs law to restrict local fracking regulations

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Texas state government -- government by the rich, for the rich, and of the rich to the detriment of all else.

Texas land owners are not often wealthy. They inherited land, which is now part of thriving suburbia and the local governments are simultaneously attempting to tax away their land for developers and restrict their access to fracking income.

There is no right or wrong in this situation. The people who aren't benefiting from fracking are banning fracking which impairs the economic capability of those who benefit. In the end, the cities are going to sell out to the highest bidder and stiff the public anyway.

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That's rather intellectually dishonest.

I'm assuming this is coming from someone whose oil mineral rights are worth $0.

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Actually, no, but you're being intellectually dishonest in that the people on Denton aren't doing this because they are envious of those that own the land that fracking is occurring on, but because their town is being subjected to hundreds of earthquakes that are causing harm to those that aren't receiving any material benefit from said fracking. But thanks for playing.

I didn't say anything about envy nor did I imply envy. I said that the people without mineral rights are impairing the economic potential of the people who do have mineral rights. Denton is a perfect example because a fair chunk of the population (and anti-fracking signatures, I'm sure) is students who only live in Denton temporarily on a part-year basis. They definitely don't have mineral rights.

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UNT is a commuter school. Most of those people do live in Denton or nearby.

School website says there are 6,000 students on campus.

They need enough signatures on the petition to exceed 25% of the participation in the last city-wide election. How many do you think that was? A few thousand?

If I were a petitioner, I'd camp out at UNT. My cousin goes to UNT, he said they were everywhere. This is just your basic astroturf vs. monied-special-interest. Everyone else is caught up in their inane shouting match.