{"id":41939,"date":"2014-11-10T11:08:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T18:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41939"},"modified":"2014-11-10T11:08:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T18:08:17","slug":"fracking-victories-and-defeats-provide-lessons-in-organizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/11\/10\/fracking-victories-and-defeats-provide-lessons-in-organizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fracking Victories and Defeats Provide Lessons in Organizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141110Uprising\/2014_11_10_jeff_biggers.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Jeff Biggers <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141110Uprising\/2014_11_10_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/fracking_denton.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Something unbelievable happened last week in the oil and gas soaked state of Texas. Residents of Denton voted to ban fracking in their town which lies on the edge of the Barnett Shale. Although 270 gas wells already spot its neighborhoods, the fracking ban garnered 59% of Denton&#8217;s vote. Chevron, Occidental Petroleum and a number of other companies spent 10 times what fracking opponents spent leading up to the election to defeat the measure. Now, those companies are gathering their forces to fight the ban in court. <\/p>\n<p>In Illinois however, oil and gas companies are celebrating. The Illinois state government, with no public consultation, approved fracking rules and cleared the way for companies to apply for permits in a 15 minute closed-door meeting last Thursday. Oil and gas companies will now be able to start setting up operations in Illinois 30 days after paying a fee of only $13,500.<\/p>\n<p>But communities around the nation like Denton, Texas, are standing up to oil companies and instituting fracking bans. Last week\u2019s elections had a record number of eight fracking bans on the ballot and 4 of them succeeded. Along with Texas, residents of Athens Ohio, and the California counties of San Benito and Mendocino approved bans in their communities.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Jeff Biggers, award winning journalist and author of State Out of the Union, Reckoning at Eagle Creek, The United States of Appalachia and In the Sierra Madre<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something unbelievable happened last week in the oil and gas soaked state of Texas. Residents of Denton voted to ban fracking in their town which lies on the edge of the Barnett Shale. Although 270 gas wells already spot its neighborhoods, the fracking ban garnered 59% of Denton&#8217;s vote. Chevron, Occidental Petroleum and a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41942,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41939\/revisions\/41942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}