Thursday, July 28, 2011

This Arlington Chick Will Make You And All Of City Council Extremely Uncomfortable



Environmental activist Kim Feil launched her battle against urban gas drilling last year with a respirator and a rap song.
Dubbed the "white lady environmental rapper," Feil's unconventional attempt to persuade the City Council in May 2010 to vote against a natural gas well site near her Arlington neighborhood included showing how difficult it would be to put respirators on if there was a drilling disaster near a school.
"I had been watching some City Council meetings. I saw people begging not to put a gas well in their area. No one was successful. They were voting everything in," said Feil, a musician and former substitute teacher. "I wanted to let them know I'd go to great lengths to get their attention."
Feil did not succeed in stopping the well, but she has become one of the area's most recognizable opponents of urban drilling in the Barnett Shale, teaming up with fellow activists to talk about the potential health, public safety and environmental risks of drilling.
Sometimes she brings along her respirator-wearing dummy Ben Zene, named after the cancer-causing chemical Feil says the industry is pumping into the air.


Does living next to the natural gas make you bat shit insane? I'd say that's the best argument Kim is giving here. Also, what balls on this lady to name herself the white lady environmental rapper. Eminem thought that he knocked down the barriers of race and rap.

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