Hazmat crews from Conoco Phillips were working on cleaning and containing the hazardous fumes Thursday evening. It was his first stop of the day and he was overcome with fumes while unloading condensate. Sounds like H2S gas. Oh, but we aren't … [Read more...]
Denton public health and safety at risk from weak gas well ordinance
Tomorrow the Denton City Council will have a public hearing and most likely vote to approve the latest gas well drilling ordinance. This ordinance will not protect public health, property values or the Denton way of life. If you care about the … [Read more...]
Benzene detected at Chesapeake Barnett Shale facility in Fort Worth
You might remember this video: Disturbing videos show massive VOC leaks from Chesapeake Fort Worth facilities ShaleTest made a complaint to the TCEQ when they took the video. TCEQ did air sampling and found benzene over the long-term exposure levels. … [Read more...]
Dear Denton: Are you as good as Southlake?
Tell the city to stop with the bull. Southlake prohibited compression facilities within the city. Also "no refining process or any process for the extraction of hydrocarbon products shall be performed at a drill site or operation site except that … [Read more...]
Texas, Denton, Dallas, Fort Worth face fracking nightmares before Christmas.
Did you ever wonder why our cities and states schedule important meetings, decisions and hearings at this time of year? It's because you are distracted by the shopping, caroling and cookie baking and they hope you won't notice when they frack up your … [Read more...]
Fracking fun at the Denton Council meeting last night
I don't have much time today so this has to be quick. Highlights from last night. The baloney prize goes to Gilbert Horton, Devon Energy, who made comments at last night's Denton Council meeting. Paraphrasing what I can remember: The drilling … [Read more...]
Is Denton tipping off the fracking industry?
The city of Denton is still in the process of re-writing phase 2 of it’s drilling ordinances. The city is currently encouraging public input and takes public comments at it’s planning and zoning meetings. I heard it through the grapevine: On … [Read more...]
If illegal dumping is legitimate your body has ways to try to shut that whole pollution thing down
In Texas you can get caught "red-handed" intentionally--as in not at all an accident--and illegally dumping drilling waste into our waterways and get off Scott free. This is not the first time Denton has been dumped on. In this case, an Eagleridge … [Read more...]
Denton stakeholder group submits amendments to Denton draft drilling ordinance.
the Denton Stakeholder Drilling Advisory Group (DAG) has released their titled "Amendments to Denton's Gas Drilling and Production Ordinance." Read the letter that accompanied the report on the Denton Drilling blog. I like the way DAG wants to … [Read more...]
Defend the Denton moratorium!
Denton will hold a public meeting on September 11, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. in the City Council Chamber at City Hall, 215 E. McKinney Street, Denton, Texas 76201. The meeting is to decide on four gas well moratorium variance requests filed by EagleRidge, … [Read more...]
EPIC FAIL: Denton Drilling Task Force
"I’ve had all I can stands. I can’t stands no more." ~Popeye Someone(s) appointed the Denton Drilling Task Force. It was carefully picked to produce a consistent 3 to 2 vote in favor of the industry. They won't even vote for baseline testing. In … [Read more...]
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