5 Take Aways from TPPF New Fracking Report

TPPF has issued a new report on fracking, here’s what they want you to know:

• There is no link between fracking & earth quakes.
  • Earth quakes are up globally, including in many areas where there is no fracking
• There is no link between fracking & groundwater contamination
  • US Department of Energy confirms there is no contamination link
• Emissions from fracking have decreased over the last 10 years
  • TCEQ in 2012 released data showing that noxious gas emissions from mobile sources is 15 times greater than fracking 
• Fracking bans cost cities 100s of Millions in lost tax revenue and gross product
  • A Ft. Worth Chamber of Commerce Perryman report shows Denton will lose:
    • $251.4 million in economic activity
    • 2,077 person-years of employment
    • $5.1 million in local tax revenue
    • $4.6 million in tax revenue for its schools 
• Local Control is not a governing principle
  • Cities are subject to the supremacy of the state, just as the state is subject to the supremacy of the federal government

Local control is not a governing principle? TPPF recognizes that cities do have some tools in tool belt, including:

• zoning authority
• Restrict when and where drilling activities can happen   

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