Environmental activist Sharon Wilson of Earthworks seems to have started a new rallying call against the oil and gas industry by claiming that a recently passed bill in the Texas state legislature was allowing “Texas fracking rape.”

Photo courtesy: ECO Watch – Sharon Wilson, Earthworks

“Fracking victims I have worked with describe it as a rape,” Wilson wrote in a blog post protesting the bill. “It is a violation of justice and it is despoiling the land. Victims usually suffer PTSD.”

“The oil & gas industry THROUGH our elected officials is shoving fracking down the throats of Texans,” Wilson said. “They are left dehumanized and completely helpless against the powerful oil & gas industry because they are in the way of profits. If feeling helpless to protect yourself against power is not a form of rape, what is?”

Anti-fracking activists across Texas echoed Wilson’s claims that fracking was raping Texas. Earthworks, where Wilson works, retweeted the blog post, saying, “Our previous RT of @TXsharon was done advisedly. The Texas legislature is trying to pass bill to force city to be fracked against its will.”

But while Wilson and a handful of other activists have endorsed the idea that fracking is rape, other environmental groups have not joined in.

(Source: The Daily Caller)