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

[Caitlin Alexander]

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.


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Tim Rice <tim at multitalents.net> wrote:

> [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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