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The very bad day for Chesapeake Energy in the Barnett Shale

September 24, 2010 By TXsharon

Julie Williams Wilson (no relation <--shudder-->) must be having the worst day ever!

Today is the Ethics Committee review where the City of Fort Worth did some Jujitsu and changed all the rules of the game AND the players so they can basically do whatever they want while completely disregarding, ahmm, ethics. See the Ft. Worth Weekly, “Has Fort Worth Lost its Moral Compass? Ethics questions seem to be a hallmark of this city administration”.

Add to that this Opinion that appeared in today’s Star-Telegram:

Fort Worth environmental manager slipped through a revolving door

It was recently announced that Brian Boerner, the former head of the Environmental Management department for Fort Worth, is joining Chesapeake Energy. This is problematic because there is nothing more effective than having “inside information” to design permit parameters ensuring City Council approval or even derail valid testing efforts.

Such knowledge would be invaluable to a company regulated by the city.

To further complicate matters, Boerner has known, by his admission, since June that he would be leaving the city staff. And yet, he signed the Air Quality Study testing contracts for the city and allocated $600,000 for it as late as Aug. 20, but made no public disclosure or recusal throughout the summer. The study will examine the potential for toxic emissions from natural gas facilities, including those of Chesapeake Energy.

There’s some juicy stuff in this opinion piece–soap opera worthy stuff.

Julie, Julie, Julie, incest is never a good idea. It spans spawns some unnatural things that often come back to bite you in the butt.

No blogging before coffee

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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Comments

  1. Anonymous says

    September 24, 2010 at 7:32 pm

    Both of these pieces are excellent and highlight the incestuous relationship the city of Ft. Worth has with Chesapeake.

    Congratulations to bumbling politicians and corrupt exec's at Chesapeake. You managed to do what the left wing whacko's could only dream of doing – making the Air Quality study absolutely worthless! And it cost $600,000 too!!!

    I now see that we really DO have major problems in the Barnett shale.

  2. Sad FW gal says

    September 24, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    Sharon, you must have meant to say Julie Wilson the chief propagandista for FW's shadow ruling junta. Unless the lady got married or divorced and changed her last name. In any event, like that man from Carter Ave. said: all these drilling related activities are not just polluting the physical environment but the more important civic and moral environment of the community, which enables such corruption and callousness to continue practically unchallenged.

  3. TXsharon says

    September 24, 2010 at 10:47 pm

    Spawn, not span. I should quit blogging before coffee.

  4. TXsharon says

    September 24, 2010 at 10:59 pm

    OMG! Julie Williams? What a slip; or is it. Maybe there is a merger in the future. Talk about incest! <~shudder~>

  5. Ward in the Woods says

    September 25, 2010 at 12:50 am

    If only our local rag would
    report on conflict of interest
    of commishes in Deafstone.
    Thanks Sharon for another
    great post.

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