[CRNMC] CELDF and Mora County Fracking battle featured in Outside Magazine!

[Tim Rice]

[comments at the bottom]
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Caitlin Alexander wrote:

Outside Magazine, June 2014
[snip]
> Karin Foster, the executive director of IPANM, counters that Mora County
> has been commandeered by a rogue environmental group. “This
> community-rights ordinance appeals to uneducated people in small
> communities that feel like they need to fight the man,” Foster says. “I
> don’t think the people leading them have their interests in mind.”
> 
> Some locals agree. Mora County is 80 percent Hispanic, and many residents
> are suspicious of Anglo groups coming in with an agenda, be it industrial
> or environmental. “That’s a real missionary attitude, to come into a place
> and say, ‘We’re going to protect you,’ ” says Sofia Martinez, an
> environmental -justice activist from Wagon Mound. Martinez opposes
> fracking, but she wishes that the county had taken a regulatory approach,
> one that didn’t expose it to potentially lengthy and expensive lawsuits.
[snip]

These 2 paragraphs were the nuggets for me.
The first shows how opposition will attempt to marginalize the proponents.
The second shows how important it is to include all segments of our county
in this effort.

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