North Texans concerned about oil and gas drilling in the Barnett Shale plan to present new findings to the Arlington City Council and school board members.
A study by Liveable Arlington says 76 schools in the city are within a half-mile to 2 miles of gas wells or drill sites. The organization’s executive director, Ranjana Bhandari, said most of the affected schools are concentrated in one part of the city.
“Almost 95% of the residents are people of color, and they seem to be bearing the highest concentration of fracking in the city, especially the fracking expansions,” Bhandari said. “All the fracking expansion is happening in those parts of town.”…