This happened right behind the homes of the people featured in Denton Record Chronicle's "Behind the Shale" series.The pits are unlined except at the very top portion where the truck is parked.WHAT'S IN THAT STUFF?P.S. We don't really know that is … [Read more...]
Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission Resolution to Keep Chemicals Secret
Urging Congress Not to Remove ExemptionOf Hydraulic Fracturing From Provisions OfThe Safe Drinking Water ActThat’s right folks! Big Oil is asking Congress to continue letting them be the only industry in America that is allowed to inject known toxic … [Read more...]
No Barnett Shale Gas Stays in Texas
I hate to break this to all you folks who remind me that we have to put up with ***** the noise***** the chemicals that will probably give us cancer ***** the air pollution that will also give us cancer***** ruined property values***** EMINENT … [Read more...]
The Barnett Shale Sludge Pit in Your Backyard.
Yesterday, Carrizo Oil & Gas dumped 3 tanker truckloads of “black, kerosene smelling fluid in the sludge pit, an unlined sludge pit!” The sludge pit is right behind Jana DeGrand’s and Jennifer Cole’s houses.Last week, I spoke with the V.P. of … [Read more...]
Netroots Activists Join Movement to Censure St. Rep. Leo Burman
Berman told Harry Joe to “go home” (as in “back to China”) and “kiss my ass.” Mr. Joe issued an apology for his part in the incident; to date Rep. Berman has remained silent and issued no apology.Get the whole story on Capitol Annex. … [Read more...]
TPA Weekly Round-up
It's Monday, and that means it is time again for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance's Weekly Round-Up.WhosPlayin presents a short video about what oil and gas pipelines have done to Dish, TX.CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme encourages … [Read more...]
Barnett Shale Air Quality: Errors and Misstatements by Texas Oil & Gas Association
February 13, 2009The Honorable Lon BurnamTexas State House of RepresentativesDistrict 90Room CAP GW.8P.O. Box 2910Austin, TX 78768Dear Representative Burnam,Thank you for inviting me to speak at a capitol briefing on Wednesday regarding the air … [Read more...]
Video: Smoking frack in the Barnett Shale? Source of N. Texas Smog
UpdatedIt seems some of that vapor during hydraulic fracture is carbon dioxide and some is...Pumped: Workers release carbon-dioxide vapor after 'fracking' a natural-gas well in eastern New MexicoRobert Nickelsberg / Getty ImagesAir is the primary … [Read more...]
If Michael Williams is the best the GOP has, then we have no worries
The most spectacular failure in Texas politics:From Rachel Maddow...there are no black elected officials in the Republican Party on national levels—none in the House of Representatives, none in the United States State, no American Republican … [Read more...]
Fort Worth, Is this your future with Barnett Shale pipelines and compressors?
Deep Dish - A look at a town crisscrossed with pipelines If you think Barnett Shale money is free, take a look at the real cost. This is the future in the Barnett Shale. … [Read more...]
We Need More Representatives Like Lon Burnam and Wendy Davis
Lon Burnam filed six bills to help victims of the shale:HB 1533 requires the Texas Railroad Commission to notify certain elected officials upon receipt of gas drilling permit applications in Tarrant CountyHB 1534 requires natural gas production and … [Read more...]
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