{"id":5464,"date":"2015-02-09T06:34:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T11:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5464"},"modified":"2015-02-09T06:34:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T11:34:24","slug":"voices-in-arlington-texas-unify-to-protect-environment-and-community-from-fracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5464","title":{"rendered":"Voices in Arlington, Texas Unify to Protect Environment and Community From Fracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2015\/02\/08\/voices-arlington-texas-unify-protect-environment-and-community-fracking\" target=\"_blank\">Voices in Arlington, Texas Unify to Protect Environment and Community From Fracking<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Liveable Arlington, a new Texas grassroots environmental group, joins the growing number of anti-fracking groups forming around the world. The group was established at the end of January, as the battle to impose stricter ozone standards intensifies and the call for fracking bans and tighter ordinances on industry increase\u00a0nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Arlington, Texas, a Dallas suburb, sits atop the natural gas rich Barnett Shale. \u201dOnce Arlington was known as a bedroom community. Now we are in the forefront of a potentially dangerous industrial experiment,\u201d Ranjana Bhandari, one of the co-founders of Liveable Arlington, told DeSmogBlog. \u201cWe have lived with fracking all around us for many years now and have experienced its negative effects on air quality, public health, and now the earthquakes,\u201d she\u00a0says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bhandari and her family are among the few residents who turned down Chesapeake Energy when the company\u2019s signing agents came seeking their\u00a0mineral rights.\u00a0The company offered her an $18,000 per acre bonus that she declined, only to find that the Texas Railroad Commission could strip those rights from her, which they\u00a0did.<\/p>\n<p>Bhandari and her\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/10\/02\/us-chesapeake-landgrab-substory-idUSBRE8910E920121002\" target=\"_blank\">husband challenged the Commission<\/a>\u00a0and lost, but that hasn\u2019t stopped her from fighting for tighter regulations against the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2013\/12\/10\/texas-fracking-bonanza-how-arlington-fell-frackers\">fracking industry as it expanded in Arlington<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voices in Arlington, Texas Unify to Protect Environment and Community From Fracking Liveable Arlington, a new Texas grassroots environmental group, joins the growing number of anti-fracking groups forming around the world. The group was established at the end of January, as the battle to impose stricter ozone standards intensifies and the call for fracking bans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3354,3355,331,412,723,2063],"class_list":["post-5464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-arlington","tag-barnett-shale","tag-fracking","tag-hydraulic-fracturing","tag-shale-oil","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5465,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions\/5465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}