Tuesday, May 28, 2013

A New Mexico county's fracking ban is all about the water

In acting to protect what's important to them, the 5,000 residents of poor Mora County make it the nation's first to ban hydraulic fracturing for oil.



OCATE, N.M. — Sitting in the tidy living room of the home they built themselves, Sandra and Roger Alcon inventory what they see as the bounty of their lives: freedom, family, community, land, animals … and water.



via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/DyIAy_Mpoh0/la-me-fracking-ban-20130529,0,7226196.story

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