There was another one last Friday night--2.2 magnitude.More than 200 wells have been permitted in the city as part of the Barnett Shale drilling boom in recent years. Geologists have said it’s possible that gas drilling could cause minor quakes, but … [Read more...]
Western Lawmakers Must Support Real Progress on Climate Change Policy
Below is an excerpt from a beautifully written commentary by a single mother who wonders what her daughter's world will be:Such signs do not portend well for the future, and I wonder if my own daughter—three years old now—will grow up believing … [Read more...]
Bradford County Commissioner McLinko Should Move to Texas
Man! Does this guy ever get tired of shilling for the shale? He's in the Marcellus Shale area but he would fit right in down here in Texas.McLinko says gas severance tax, greenhouse bill will hurt Bradford CountyTOWANDA — The proposed state severance … [Read more...]
LOBBYING: Oil, gas companies on record-setting spending spree
When Big Oil and Big Gas whine about how taxing their pollution or regulating their pollution will break their back, remember this and tell them: "Cry me a river."From Greenwire:LOBBYING: Oil, gas companies on record-setting spending spree (Friday, … [Read more...]
Health Endangering North Texas Smog Requires Action
Al Armendariz: We can't wish our smog away(Armendariz air study)Clean-air plan won't keep N. Texas from violating ozone standard. We deserve better.06:35 AM CDT on Wednesday, July 25, 2007Dallas-Fort Worth's ozone smog is going to disappear. No more … [Read more...]
EPA Smacks Down Rick Perry and TCEQ
I woke up this morning and looked out the window, across my pasture at a scene straight out of Mordor. The smog in Wise County, Texas where I moved 14 years ago to escape the pollution in Fort Worth is cloying today (I'll have pictures up later). … [Read more...]
Barnett Shale Earthquakes: Fracking Quakes on Front Page of NY Times
In Switzerland they're fracking for geothermal and it induced more than 3,500 earthquakes!Deep in Bedrock, Clean Energy and Quake FearsAll seemed to be going well — until Dec. 8, 2006, when the project set off an earthquake, shaking and damaging … [Read more...]
Injection/Disposal Well Failure Dismissed by Texas Railroad Commission
This Aledo disposal well less than a mile from a subdivision where people get their drinking water from groundwater opened 18 months ago and just received its first inspection due to a complaint.Does anyone else remember my post about John Tinterra … [Read more...]
Marcellus Shale: Oil & Gas Waste Violation at Jersey Shore Borough
Pennsylvania citizens should watch the ditches on the sides of the roads and the creeks because that stuff has to go somewhere!N E W S R E L E A S E COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIACOMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIADept. of Environmental ProtectionNorthcentral … [Read more...]
List of Pipeline Explosions
Thank you to reader, Gretchen in Arlington, for compiling this exhaustive list. (Note: this list does not include the recent Carthage incident or the Wise County and Palo Pinto incdents. Gretchen promises more to come.)Not all of these are pipeline, … [Read more...]
TPA Round-Up
It's Monday, the day after the first day of summer, and it's time for another Texas Progressive Alliance blog roundup.President Obama, Bill White, and John Sharp are all in the same sinking DOMA boat. The Texas Cloverleaf comes off of hiatus to tell … [Read more...]
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