If you live in the Barnett Shale area go listen to Don't Drink the Water.Today I got the following message:Fruit of the Orchard on American Public Media's "The Story"Greetings! Folks,Today at 2pm, CST, The Story will broadcast an interview of some of … [Read more...]
Barnett Shale: Fort Worth Residents Sell Out Cheap
XTO Energy, Inc. and Fort Worth Energy kicked in $25,000 to Friends of Tillery Park toward their park revamp.XTO's NET profit for the first six months of 2007 was a mere $815 million.XTO and oil and gas drilling companies are ravaging Fort Worth and … [Read more...]
How are these alike? Fort Worth and Wise County
HINT: It's not just the Texas part. We are both dealing with Barnett Shale Drilling and all the abuses that brings but it's also the conflict of interest and good old boy politics.Fort Worth Mayor, Mike Moncrief, says the $620,000 +/- that he … [Read more...]
Wise County, Texas Has No One to Protect Our Air and Water
Look here Wise County at what a great job our representatives are doing of protecting our environment enabling their benefactors, big business, to ruin our health and that of our children for their own personal gain.Full report available HERE. … [Read more...]
Star-Telegram To Run My REAL Letter Saturday
Today I got a voice message and email from David House, Reader Advocate for the Star-Telegram.The background is here but the cliff notes are: They did a hatchet job on my LTE and turned a rebuttal into agreement.Here is the message I received from … [Read more...]
Star-Telegram edits LTE to match bias
THIS is why I blog. THIS is why Citizen Journalism is so important. August 27, 2007, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram ran an opinion piece titled, Oh yes, we need the whole thing. This op-ed was written by Allan Saxe, Professor of Political Science, … [Read more...]
Barnett Shale: Save the Trinity Trees Public Forum
Trinity TreesThursday, September 66:00 - 8:00 PMCapstone Church1700 Rogers RoadFort Worth, TexasShow your support for saving what many consider the most beautiful section of the Trinity Hike and Bike Trail system by coming to the Forum along with … [Read more...]
Barnett Shale: No, it won’t make us safer.
I stumbled across an opinion piece printed in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram titled, Oh, yes, we need the hole thing. This piece, written by a political science professor at UT-Arlington, was long on rhetoric and short on fact. So much so, that I … [Read more...]
Barnett Shale: Devon, you underwhelm me.
Devon Energy donated $50,000 to Wise County for "damage to infrastructure caused by flooding during the summer's unusually heavy rains." According to a Star-Telegram News Brief they gave the same amount to Johnson and Parker Counties.At first … [Read more...]
Barnett Shale = Environmental Attrocities! HELP! Save the Trinity Trees Picnic
Trinity Trees.orgThe beautiful, eight-acre wooded parcel of land along the Trinity Trail near Rogers Road, which most people thought was a park, is now owned by Chesapeake Energy.Plans are being finalized by Chesapeake to destroy 2.5 acres of the … [Read more...]
Barnett Shale Drilling: An Insatiable Thirst
This is a really old post so I don't understand the sudden renewed interest by industry but HERE is an updated post. This is not a sexy story. Nobody is getting blown up, although there are likely some who are dying the slow death of … [Read more...]