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By Laura DeVivo | Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLPDenton Becomes First Texas City to Ban Hydraulic Fracturing
By Adam Garmezy | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLPOn Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 59 percent of voters elected to ban the practice of hydraulic fracturing (“fracing”) in the city of Denton, which sits on top of the hydrocarbon-rich Barnett Shale. Although the ban does not prevent conventional drilling operations, the ban essentially forbids fracing, effectively expelling the drilling industry from city limits. Other municipalities sitting on top of the Barnett Shale—such as Fort Worth, Dallas and Arlington—have grappled with urban drilling as well, but Denton’s complete prohibition marks the first of its kind in Texas.