Despite the push from some local advocacy groups to greatly enlarge setbacks (buffer zones) between hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, operations and residences in the city of Mansfield, Texas, the city council recently voted unanimously to keep the current 600-foot setbacks.

The Mansfield Gas Well Awareness advocacy group supported a revised ordinance that would have widened the setbacks to 1,000 feet or even 1,500 feet.

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