Oral History Interview with Evan Stone, 2015 Page: 4 of 5

                                
No, he stuffed some stuff down there and filled
the top 75 feet with concrete and just leave it.
And they say "No, you're not supposed to do that"
because if something, I don' t know what, something
broke into the 75 foot depth of ground, then
you've got an open well. There's still fumes that
come out of that. People have stumbled into open
wells in the woods and the fumes coming out of the
well killed them, knocked them dead. They found a
guy out there who just stumbled into a well. It
wasn't covered properly, it wasn't plugged, a  big
whiff of that stuff and just boom. Just lying
there dead, next to that well. [Break].
Stone:    So it needs to be regulated. It needs to be
regulated. Oil is fucking incredible. You wouldn't
have  a phone   to  record  this  conversation  on
without petroleum. I get it. But regulations are
okay. But industries with the most money and the
right lobbying power aren't regulated the same
way. [Break].
Stone:   On voting day we showed up and, you know, all the
Frack-free Denton signs are being held in place by
volunteers and all of the responsible drilling
whatever, all the stuff that's paid for by the oil

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