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$Home in an improvised neighborhood in Carrizo Springs. Closed businesses and blighted homes are not uncommon in Carrizo Springs Texas in the Eagle Ford Shale, despite the fracking boom.$

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$Flare at a fracking industry site in the Eagle Ford Shale region in Texas.$

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$Inside Davy Store in the Eagle Ford Shale. The store sells more beer and cigarettes since the fracking industry moved in.$

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$Downtown Nordheim, Texas in DeWitte County in the Eagle Ford Shale. The sleepy town see lots of truck traffic due to the boom in the fracking industry.$

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$Store window in Karns City, in the Eagle Ford Shale. The area was in an economic down turn before the fracking industry moved in. The downtown areas in the small cities remain empty. Only new hotels, gas stations and chain restaurants at major intersections see an upswing in business.$

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$Catus next to the home of Hugh A. Fitzsimons III, a buffalo rancher in Carrizo Springs Texas, part of the Eagle Ford Shale. Fitzsimons land is part of a trust that has agreed to lease the mineral rights so fracking, though not happening yet on his land, will start in the near future. Fitzsimons, concerned with the amount of water the fracking industry uses ran and won a seat on the Carrizo Springs water-board so he could have a voice in protecting the areas water.$

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$Bones and antlers on a table outside of the home of Hugh A. Fitzsimons III, a buffalo rancher in Carrizo Springs Texas, part of the Eagle Ford Shale. Fitzsimons land is part of a trust that has agreed to lease the mineral rights so fracking, though not happening yet on his land, will start in the near future. Fitzsimons, concerned with the amount of water the fracking industry uses ran and won a seat on the Carrizo Springs water-board so he could have a voice in protecting the areas water.$

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$Yorktown Texas, in DeWitt County in the heart of the Eagle Ford Shale. Despite the fracking industry boom much of the city has closed businesses and blighted buildings.$

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$Taxidermy shop window on the main street passing through Yorktown Texas, in DeWitt County in the heart of the Eagle Ford Shale. Despite the fracking industry boom much of the city has closed businesses and blighted buildings.$

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$Flag motiff on maniquins at a second hand shop in Kenedy Texas. part of Karnes County in the heart of the Eagle Ford Shale. Despite the fracking industry boom much of the city has closed businesses and blighted buildings.$

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$The recently renovated Settles Hotel is surrounded by closed business in downtown Big Spring Texas located in the Permian Basin where the fracking boom had brought riches to mineral rights owner, The money is not spreading though the community which the blighted downtown illustrates.$

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$A store front church in Cortulla, Texas next to a closed businesses . There are many closed shops and blighted homes in Cortulla Texas, which is part of the Eagle Ford Shale, despite the fracking boom.$

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$Home in Big Wells Texas . Closed businesses and blighted homes are not uncommon in Carrizo Springs Texas in the Eagle Ford Shale, despite the fracking boom.$

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$Closed businesses and blighted homes are not uncommon in Carrizo Springs Texas in the Eagle Ford Shale, despite the fracking boom.$

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