This has GOT to STOP!This sludge pit is WAY past the 120 day limit for clean-up mandated by state law and I'm sure the Texas Railroad Commission neither knows nor cares where this pit is located. I took pictures of the cows watering from this pit … [Read more...]
Texas Environmental Regulators Seduced by Regulated
An article in today’s Statesmen provides a clue as to why Texas suffers from so much pollution.Revolving door at Texas environmental agency?Some worry that many top officials leave to go to work with companies they once regulated.In a Nut Shell, … [Read more...]
Update: Hosed by Braden Exploration?
Last night at the local Mexican Food joint, I ran into the fireman who answered the call last Sunday. He said that this week he caught Braden dumping drilling mud into the pit that they told him last Sunday was fresh water. Braden said they were … [Read more...]
Texas Railroad Commission Investigation Results: Hey, Braden Exploration! Are you illegally dumping drilling waste in Wise County?
Yesterday I received the results from Texas Railroad Commission’s investigation of the Hosed by Braden incident. Full report HERE.An abbreviated version of the findings:Braden claims they used the 3” polypipe/hose to pump unused “frac-water” from the … [Read more...]
Natural Gas Found in Private Water Wells: How the oil and gas industry is exactly like the tobacco industry.
Updated post here Gas has been found in at least three water wells in Pennsylvania and state regulators are trying to determine if gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale is to blame. Did you ever see Thank You for Smoking? Plot Nick Naylor … [Read more...]
If you have a gas pipeline in your yard, take a look at these pictures.
Post Hole Digger Hits a Cross Country Gas Pipe LineHere's one picture but go look at the others. As you can see, your house and all the houses near you would be gone. Edit: Here's another one. … [Read more...]
Is Fort Worth Smoking Frack?
Hydraulic Fracturing pictureGo read about it and see the other pictures at Durango Texas. … [Read more...]
Industry shills try to stifle conversatin in Wise County
Industry bullies do not want THIS CONVERSATION to happen.They are heavily invested in keeping the chatter down and marginalizing anyone who suggests that our environment and the public deserves better treatment. Remember, the oil and gas industry can … [Read more...]
Letters: Inspector Deficit and Gas Well Noise
Interesting Letters to the Editor. The natives grow restless. Denton Record ChronicleOverworked inspectorsI found “Voicing the silence” (Page 1A, Dec. 31) very interesting, especially if you work the numbers on Texas’ oil and gas well inspectors a … [Read more...]
Hey, Braden Exploration! Are you illegally dumping drilling waste in Wise County?
With great interest I’ve watched the drilling going on around me hoping that all would go well and the producer would take care and follow the rules, such as they are. For weeks, I noticed the black hose that meanders along the side of FM 730. It … [Read more...]
Behind the Shale: A Five Part Series
Here are links to all five of the Behind the Shale articles by Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe and Lowell Brown of the Denton Record Chronicle.Eminent dominanceExpansion of natural gas industry into Barnett Shale leaves Argyle families little recourse.Chapter 1: … [Read more...]
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