WTUL News reports on a lecture from Adam Briggle, a leader of a Frack Free Denton

Adam Briggle of Frack Free Denton spoke to Tammany Together regarding the history of the 2014 ban against hydraulic fracturing in Denton, Texas. Despite the shale play already humming in the overheated boom of texas petro-capitalism, Denton passed stricter regulations, then a complete ban on fracking once those regulations were found to be routinely violated by drillers. Briggle recounts the beginning of a movement, from scattered personalities fighting permit by permit fights, scaling to a "Denton Advisory Group" that wrested legitimacy away from the industry Task Forces, leading to regulation of routine noise and spill problems. Once companies were found to be violating their reasonable regulations, though, movement leaders fought an won a ban on hydraulic fracturing for their town of Denton, in the middle of an oil-addicted Texas state.

30 minutes, part 1 of 2