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TAKE ACTION: Protect Local Rights: Oppose HB 1496

March 7, 2013 By TXsharon

Help stop a state power grab of local oversight of the oil & gas industry

Do you want an oil or gas well next to schools, playgrounds, or in your backyard?

Rep. Van Taylor, who lives where drilling or fracking isn’t, has authored a bill to grab local controls of oil & gas development and hand them to a failed state agency: the Texas Railroad Commission.

Taylor lives on an oil company inheritance, so its no surprise that his bill would help billion-dollar corporations, not regular Texans!

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Texas hospital entrance next to fracking rig!

His bill would be a disaster for Texas cities, forcing communities to defer to state regulations which allow drilling and fracking within 200 ft. of a habitable structure — including homes, schools, churches etc.

TAKE ACTION: HB 1496 is pending approval by the Land and Resource Management Committee. Send the Committee a strong message that Texans won’t stand for this government power grab.

More information:

  • HB 1496

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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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