<div dir="ltr"><br><br>Yes, the old "divide and conquer" they are so good at. She is not discussing the issue of fracking at all there - brilliant really in its deviousness. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Tim Rice <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@multitalents.net" target="_blank">tim@multitalents.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Caitlin Alexander wrote:<br>
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Outside Magazine, June 2014<br>
[snip]<br>
<div class="">> Karin Foster, the executive director of IPANM, counters that Mora County<br>
> has been commandeered by a rogue environmental group. “This<br>
> community-rights ordinance appeals to uneducated people in small<br>
> communities that feel like they need to fight the man,” Foster says. “I<br>
> don’t think the people leading them have their interests in mind.”<br>
><br>
> Some locals agree. Mora County is 80 percent Hispanic, and many residents<br>
> are suspicious of Anglo groups coming in with an agenda, be it industrial<br>
> or environmental. “That’s a real missionary attitude, to come into a place<br>
> and say, ‘We’re going to protect you,’ ” says Sofia Martinez, an<br>
> environmental -justice activist from Wagon Mound. Martinez opposes<br>
> fracking, but she wishes that the county had taken a regulatory approach,<br>
> one that didn’t expose it to potentially lengthy and expensive lawsuits.<br>
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These 2 paragraphs were the nuggets for me.<br>
The first shows how opposition will attempt to marginalize the proponents.<br>
The second shows how important it is to include all segments of our county<br>
in this effort.<br>
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