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On Tuesday, voters in Denton, Texas, banned fracking within the city limits by a large margin of 59 to 41. The first such restriction in Texas, Denton has been a hotly contested site for the industry and one of eight locales with fracking bans on the ballot this election. Denton has about 125,000 residents and sits on the Barnett shale. It already has 275 fracked wells.
Denton remains solidly Republican. Oil companies reportedly spent $700,000 to defeat the ban, according to the Denton Record-Chronicle. Residents were fed up with the noise and disruption of fracking, and the constant traffic and fumes from wells and trucks operating in residential neighborhoods.
More at Time magazine: http://time.com/3559160/fracking-activists-texas-ban/
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