Thursday, May 29, 2014

Outside Magazine on Community Rights

The mother of all anti-fracking tools? Check it out! Even Outside Magazine is getting inside the Community Rights Movement. In a recent piece titled "The Mother of All Anti-Fracking Tools", the adventure-sports publication took a look at what's happening in Mora County, New Mexico, the first U.S. county to ban hydrofracking outright. By asserting that their community rights to local self-governance and clean water trump corporate rights to extract fossil fuels, Mora has boldly gone where no county has gone before.