Here’s what America’s Natural Gas did today in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas.
You can keep up with what America’s Natural Gas is doing in the Eagle Ford Shale on the new Eagle Ford Shale blog, Texas is gonna be toast.
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We hosed you
I just came back from the Eagle Ford Shale area and it looks like the gas drillers are learning from their mistakes. Now they are not clearing property but leaving the trees next to the road and drilling their wells where their nasty secrets are hidden so you have to trespass you can see what they are up to.
So see America's Natural Gas companies have learned something from the Barnett Shale.
Sounds like a good day in the oil patch no body got hurt, profit made for the royalty owners, maybe a feeling hurt but grow up…..
Yeah! Bunch of whiny damn liberal treehuggers. Can't you take a little diesel in your water?
No body in the industry got hurt. Some landowners probably learned they only own 200' around their house and nothing more. Some water probably got contaminated. Something carcinogenic probably got spilled some places. Lots of air got contaminated. A few more kids got asthma. EOG, CHK, EXXON, XTO and a few other CEOs probably added another million to their yearly bonus.
Ain't it great to live in the gas patch?
Life is good! Don't tell the Government or they will ban it. I remember at age 16 washing casing threads with a scrub brush and a bucket of diesel at drilling rigs, swallowing the diesel and every time for a month belching diesel bubbles when I hick-up. Life goes on. Be thankful and gentleness will follow. I regulated the industry for 24 years. there are always good players and bad. Your video in my opinion is a good player.
Maybe if you had swallowed less diesel you would understand the point of regulation better.
Drifter if you are bragging about regulating the industry for 24 years I would say you should be bragging for getting paid to do nothing. It seems to be the industry has been under-regulated for a long time.
Are you now a lobbist for the oil and gas industry? receiving pension checks or royalties from the industry? if so pretty hard to be objective.
As an ex-"regulator" you should know along with the visual aspect of a drilling rig there is also the aspect of smell, soil and water contamination, de-valuation of property, and a destruction of quality of life that goes along with these wells coming to a neighborhood close by.
I'm sure glad you're back Scuba. Thanks for pointing out the EPIC FAIL that is 24 years of regulating the oil and gas industry in Texas.
Scooby Doo
I am retired and work for whoever I want to. If your case was just and noble maybe even you. If you had been exposed to the oilfield earlier in your life you would understand that the mineral estate dominates and even though the surface looks calm someone else can mess things up. Until the Laws allow, TX Regulators can only address issues in the statutes. Until then you need to learn that there are always two ways to skin a cat….and you attract more flies with Honey. Be thankful you have gas wells on your property and not stripper wells with saltwater leaks.
Look here, Drifter,
I will let just about anybody come on here and make a total ass out of themselves but you need to understand a few things:
1. Scuba has one of the most noble professions there is so don't go assuming you know anything at all about us. We are a very diverse group of Texans who are mad as hell because the industry you defend has harmed us personally.
2. We can't live without clean air and water and neither can children and old people. Fighting for life is pretty damn noble.
3. Some of us, including me, used to work in the industry so you don't need to talk down to us or act superior. We're a whole lot more educated on the working of the oil and gas industry than you think.
4. We know all about the split estate and how that works–still not going to let industry poison us.
5. I hate to break this to you but gas wells have horrendous saltwater leaks all the damn time.
6. Texas regulators are paid protectors of the oil and gas industry. They have severe conflicts. They don't address anything unless it gets totally embarrassing to not address it and then they do as little as possible.
7. People preach what they most need to learn re: flies and honey.
@HighPlainsDrifter – since you love living in the gas patch so much, I'm sure Tim would love to sell you his property – you can have it for $300,000, nevermind the tax appraisal, that's just smoke and mirrors, well, there's smoke, maybe not the mirrors.