Dawn Cobb: Citizens of the Shale
From the managing editor
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Five graduate students, the current Mayborn Fellow at the University of North Texas Mayborn School of Journalism and professor George Getschow, formerly with The Wall Street Journal and a Pulitzer finalist, worked side by side with the editors and staff of the Denton Record-Chronicle to look at the increasingly complex and controversial issues surrounding rampant gas development in our region.
Atmosphere of concern
Residents of Dish feel change in air
Saturday, March 26, 2011
By Elizabeth Smith
This story is about the victims in Dish whose lives have been permanently altered and damaged.
Industry fueling region’s transformation
Saturday, March 26, 2011
By Lowell Brown and Dawn Cobb
“The land is our land, not gas land.”
Those words appear on a sign staked defiantly outside a home in Flower Mound, a hotbed of natural gas drilling and production activity.
The message may work as a rallying cry, but it’s not true. For better or worse, North Texas — like a growing number of urban areas across the country — is a land deeply changed by gas extraction.
About Sharon Wilson
Sharon Wilson is considered a leading citizen expert on the impacts of shale oil and gas extraction. She is the go-to person whether it’s top EPA officials from D.C., national and international news networks, or residents facing the shock of eminent domain and the devastating environmental effects of natural gas development in their backyards.
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This brings tears to my eyes.
So few people understand.
I fear my condition will get worse, as it does almost on a daily basis.
I have already switched all of my household cleaning products, my diet, and all of my hygiene products.
Does TCEQ consider this a 'nuisance'?
Does TCEQ consider it a nuisance that I can only drive certain ways to avoid contamination?
NO.
I began packing at Thanksgiving.
WTF?!?
How can we allow this to happen in our beautiful country known as the United States of America?!?
The destruction of the Texas Prairie.
You most certainly will get worse, Zoe. Talk to Sandra DenBraber in Arlington.
My stuff has been packed up and in storage for over a year now. We have two lawn chairs as our living room furniture. Last year, I abandoned my place in the country and moved to an apartment where it is slightly safer. My long range plan is to move off the shale. I won't wait around for the regulators to protect us because that won't happen if Texans continue their current voting patters. But I also won't abandon the citizens of the shale.
There is a gas drilling rig up in Lewisville about 30 feet from the public road, also close to apartments and gas stations.
Got to see it!
Not good at all!
You need to take all the video and pictures you can of the site in Lewisville. Bug the shit out of TCEQ and RRC if you smell or see anything out of the ordinary. Neither one are really that useful but it sure takes you mind of what your breathing for a while
That rig in Lewisville is CRAZY close to the road. The pad site butts up against the road and there are no walls along the road side of the pad site. If you ever wanted to get up close and personal to a site (without tresspassing), this is as close as you will ever get without getting a personal invitation. It is operated by Williams, record spiller in Flower Mound (3 in one year).
The Lewisville Rig: If a pipe falls, it could easily hit a car driving by.
Shocking how close they allowed that rig to a public road……
Lewisville, what are you thinkin' my friend?
You can't drive by that site without hacking up a lung (or two). I wonder how all the people in those apartments sleep at night with all that racket and fumes?