{"id":8717,"date":"2015-06-02T07:31:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T12:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8717"},"modified":"2015-06-02T07:31:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T12:31:27","slug":"breaking-citizens-arrested-while-defending-denton-texas-fracking-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8717","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Citizens Arrested While Defending Denton, Texas Fracking Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Breaking: Citizens Arrested While Defending Denton, Texas Fracking Ban<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Three members of the\u00a0Denton Drilling Awareness Group<\/a>\u00a0were arrested when they refused to move away from the entrance to a fracking site where work began\u00a0today.<\/p>\n

Before arresting them, however, Sergeant Jenkins, a 30-year veteran of the Denton police department, thanked Adam Briggle, a professor at the University of North Texas, and Denton residents Niki Chochrek and Tara Linn Hunter for the work they\u00a0had\u00a0done.<\/p>\n

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\nSergeant Jenkins thanks Adam Briggle for his service to the community. \u00a92015 Julie\u00a0Dermansky\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The three were charged with criminal trespass and released before noon. The arrests come a week after\u00a0Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed legislation<\/a>\u00a0that prohibits cities and towns in Texas from banning\u00a0fracking.<\/p>\n

In a prepared statement before his arrest,\u00a0Briggle wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cAn act of civil disobedience requires you to distinguish just laws from unjust laws. I have read much about this and discussed Antigone, Thoreau, and Martin\u00a0Luther King, Jr. with my students. But I have never acted until now, because never before has that distinction been so clear in my mind. A just law would give those exposed to the harms of fracking a meaningful voice. An unjust law would subordinate those voices to the dictates of the powerful and wealthy.\u00a0HB<\/span>\u00a040 is an unjust\u00a0law.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nAdam Briggle arrested for trespassing at a Vantage frack site.\u00a0\u00a92015 Julie\u00a0Dermansky<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nTara Linn Hunter arrested for trespassing at a Vantage frack site.\u00a0\u00a92015 Julie\u00a0Dermansky<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nNiki Chochrek arrested for trespassing at a Vantage frack site.\u00a0 \u00a92015 Julie\u00a0Dermansky<\/em><\/p>\n

Yesterday, before fracking within the city limits resumed, a group that supports the fracking ban, including Denton Councilpersons Kevin Roden and Keely Briggs, gathered at City\u00a0Hall.<\/p>\n

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\nRally in front of City Hall in support of the fracking ban. \u00a92015 Julie\u00a0Dermansky<\/em><\/p>\n

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