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Call to Action: Big Gas Mafia’s has Denton in their crosshairs

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Hey Denton! Are you going to let an industry funded Astroturf group weigh in on your city’s drilling ordinances?

The prime Barnett Shale areas with lax drilling ordinances are narrowing. Denton, Arlington and Fort Worth are the three areas in the “sweet spot” with the weakest drilling ordinances. It’s hard to tell if Denton is serious about better regulation when they stack the task force with industry insiders and import staff who have been accused of enabling weak drilling regulations in Arlington.

Adding to the insults, Denton is besieged by an Astroturf group, Clean Resources: Citizens for Lasting Energy and Affordable Natural Resources, that appears to closely follow the Ed Ireland playbook. Their website says:

Are big energy companies funding you?
Our membership is made up of big energy companies and small energy companies as well as dues-paying individuals, organizations, and businesses – including big energy companies and small energy companies – that share our belief in the importance of the Barnett Shale. We’re all involved because we think the Barnett has a role to play in improving the lives, lifestyles, and opportunities of Texans throughout the region – and the energy, national security, and environmental future of America. And we’re attracting members from every corner of the 20-county Barnett Shale area

I’m guessing this group exists for the sole purpose of showing up at meetings as paid spokespeople for the Big Gas Mafia. Their Facebook page only has 24 likes/friends and their Twitter feed tweets to less than 200 and consists of calls to action.

Come to the Denton Gas Well Drilling Task Force meeting tonight and stand up for CLEAN ENERGY! (6:00 @ City Council Chambers)

Come to the FW disposal well meeting tonight! (7:00 @ TCC South Campus Student Center 5301 Campus Drive – Room SSTU210)

Last Monday they spoke at the Denton task force meeting against regulation.

Several members of the Fort Worth-based pro-industry group CLEAN Resources drove that point home during public comments, saying overregulation threatened the industry’s potential to create jobs and reduce the country’s reliance on foreign oil. They also argued that drillers were being unfairly targeted when other industries used more water.

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And the week before…

Several members of CLEAN Resources, a Fort Worth-based pro-industry group, addressed the task force Monday night downplaying the industry’s health and environmental effects. They warned that over regulation could kill industry jobs.

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Denton citizens! You need to show up and sound off!

Get a full-size flier HERE.

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Comments

  1. A Nonny Mouse says

    I saw that group at the last task force meeting. I wonder how much industry pays them to speak. Everything they said was total bullshit straight from Ed Ireland’s keyboard.

    • WCGasette says

      Do you think they really get paid to speak? Or are they just lessors who have been told that if they DON’T speak up then their royalties will be threatened? One thing we know, with some people, it only takes a little flattery from the Oil and Gas Industry to make them think they are important.

      • TXsharon says

        Watch the videos. These are young kids who are reading speeches that are unfamiliar to them. They are turning up at meetings all over.

  2. Anonymous says

    I’ve heard industry people speaking to city council threatening to leave town (Arlington) if the ordinances were made tighter. I felt like shouting out GOOD BYE and GOOD RIDDANCE!!

    • Anonymous says

      Hallelujah. Amen! The faster you get the hell out of these parts, the better. You have been BAD neighbors!!!!

  3. David says

    Ed Ireland (spokes person for BSeec) and Chelsea Bacher (spokes person for Clean Resources) must be neighbors!
    Chelsea gives 8601 Bridge Street FW Tx 76112 as her address
    Ed Ireland’s web address: 8613 Bridge St

    It’s so obvious to spot front groups for Big Oil & Gas like “Clean Resources” by comparing to legitimate groups like: .
    http://www.nctca.net/home.html

    Here’s Ed’s Web info:
    Domain ID:D144106713-LROR
    Domain Name:BSEEC.ORG
    Created On:21-Apr-2007 17:38:31 UTC
    Last Updated On:18-Mar-2010 15:17:36 UTC
    Expiration Date:21-Apr-2017 17:38:31 UTC
    Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR)
    Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
    Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED
    Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
    Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
    Registrant ID:CR43507362
    Registrant Name:Ed Ireland
    Registrant Street1:8613 Bridge St.
    Registrant Street2:
    Registrant Street3:
    Registrant City:North Richland Hills
    Registrant State/Province:TX
    Registrant Postal Code:76180
    Registrant Country:US
    Registrant Phone:+1.8175059284
    Registrant Phone Ext.:
    Registrant FAX:
    Registrant FAX Ext.:
    Registrant Email:ed@personallythere.com

    Hey he used GoDaddy too just like CR, another considence?

    • A Nonny Mouse says

      According to Google Maps 8601 and 8613 Bridge Street is Jack in the Box. How appropriate! Ed Ireland offices at Jack in the Box.

        • GhostBlogger says

          That phone number is linked to another address:

          Metroplex Natural Gas Vehicle Consortium – 130
          Non-profit
          Ed Ireland
          777 Taylor Street, Ste. 900
          Fort Worth, TX 76102
          817-505-9284

      • TXsharon says

        Use North Richland Hills as the city, not Fort Worth and you will see that it is a neighborhood. There are 2 houses between Ed’s address and Chelsea’s.

    • TXsharon says

      I remember seeing that post on Downwinders but I forgot to include it. What these paid industry speakers don’t realize is that even the tea party people are changing their tunes when it comes to gas drilling. Industry continues to follow the fracking insurgent recipe so they are creating new batches in the most unlikely places.

      I like working with tea party people once they realize they have been on the wrong path. They have a lot of anger that creates energy.

      • Rule 37 says

        Any true tea party person would be against the abuses of Rule 37 and taking private property without just compensation, as would any constitutionalist. There are plenty of non-partisan issues everyone (except those in industry, of course) should be concerned about.

    • Anonomous says

      This is really GOOD information. Am unable to pull up the whole thing on my little computer. Upon initial review, I agree there are many,many migratory paths for all kinds of fluids/gasses (including drilling fluids, fracking fluids, and raw natural gasses) to migrate up from gas producing zones to water aquifers–many, many. Any idea how I can get a hard copy of this excellent paper? And the situation is much worse in this new era of shale gas drilling using high pressure gas wells than it was in the days of old when we were drilling almost exclusively for oil using low pressure oil wells–with no surface pressure! In the shale areas, our water acquifers are “on a long walk on a short pier”!

  6. Cathy McMullen says

    Thanks Sharon for helping spread the word.
    I feel like Denton is the “last stand”. If the natural gas industry can control our ordinances we really should “put a sign around the Barnett Shale” which says enter at your own risk.
    The stakes are so high and if we get it wrong the penalties will effect the next several generations in ways I do not think anyone can imagine.

  7. Cathy McMullen says

    The connection between Ed Ireland and Clean Energy is indisputible. Ed Ireland’s wife Carolyn Cross Ireland posted comments to Clean Energy’s FACEBOOK page praising their work. If you then go to CQ MEdia FACEBOOK page you will see this is a company run by Mrs. Cross Ireland and there are several pictures of her and her baby Eddie boy with Elizabeth Ames from the Texas Railroad Commission. This is almost incestous but facinating.

  8. Cathy McMullen says

    Clean Resources
    Clean Resources – Weekly E-Newsletter

    Clean Resources – Weekly E-Newsletter
    us2.campaign-archive1.com
    Like · Comment · January 26 at 7:44am via MailChimp ·

    Carolyn Cross Ireland You guys are doing a wonderful job of spreading facts about drilling.
    January 26 at 7:54am · 1

  9. Cathy McMullen says

    It looks like the receive box seats at the the Texas Motor Speedway from the Hillwood group and box seat to Cowboy games from Energy Institute at TCU. IT’S GOOD TO BE THE KING?

    Ed & Carolyn Ireland of the BSEEC with Elizabeth Ames Jones the Chairman of Texas Railroad Commission at NGV luncheon at TCU.

    Like · Comment · December 14, 2011 at 1:17pm via mobile ·

    Carolyn Cross Ireland She is amazing!
    December 14, 2011 at 1:24pm

  10. New Denton County Resident says

    I checked out the FB pages- Clean Resources has a whole 24 people that ‘like’ it, and only Fast Eddie’s wife made the only comment. Maybe the BSEEC can help them out? See y’all Monday.