Big Business as Usual: Fracking in the American Dream City

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An Arlington environmentalist calls for courage at the local level despite state limitations.

As I write, the temperature outside is 91 degrees Fahrenheit, nowhere near the worst to be expected this summer. According to data from thedays within the same temperature range when I was born in 1991. This change in temperature is due in no small part to fracking, which has a ubiquitous presence in our North Texas city.

The group Physicians for Social Responsibility has investigated the issue in great depth and came to the following conclusion in a: “Our examination uncovered no evidence that fracking can be practiced in a manner that does not threaten human health directly or without imperiling climate stability upon which human health depends.”Despite this mounting public health crisis, the City of Arlington has chosen to do nothing to stymie the proliferation of fracking in our city.

The leverage the oil and gas industry has over our local government is immense, but it is not insurmountable. We at the Sunrise Movement—a nonprofit and activist organization fighting climate change—urge the council to take a stance that doesn’t defer responsibility or acquiesce to business interests but that holds them accountable for the damage inflicted on our communities.

To the mayor, the council, and all those who represent the people, I would like to pose this question: Whose side are you on? The companies that extract from, pollute, and ultimately abandon our city? Or the people who, as my friend Jennifer Quick put it at a recent city council meeting, are “doing the work that makes Arlington a great place to live”? She went on to say, “It feels like no one’s got our back, no one’s in our corner.

 

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