Oil and Natural Gas Industry Calls on Rep. Horn to Oppose Fracking Ban

Proposal would amount to a nationwide ban on drilling for oil and natural gas  

Oklahoma’s oil and natural gas industry is calling on Rep. Kendra Horn to publicly oppose her party’s radical plan to ban the use of hydraulic fracturing in oil and natural gas development. 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have introduced legislation that would outlaw use of the technology that is used virtually in every producing basin in the U.S. As the nation’s third largest producer of natural gas and the fourth largest producer of oil, Oklahoma would be disproportionally harmed if this proposed ban were to become reality. 

“We hope that Rep. Horn will take this opportunity to carefully consider the negative impacts her party’s proposed policies would have on the environment, our national energy security, and the economy of her district,” said David D. Le Norman…

Read the full story at the Petroleum Alliance.