Oil and gas has taken over Texas and no one is coming to help. The amount of air pollution boiling out scared me! Marathon's Sugarhorn facility is a chronic offender so I knew I would see emissions. I always see emissions at the Sugarhorn. But I … [Read more...]
UPDATE: Texas Railroad Commission to rename Arlington gas well blowout well
Boots & Coots, a Halliburton well control services company, has been working through the night to get control of an Arlington gas well blowout in a neighborhood. So far, attempts to get control have been unsuccessful. This is the first blowout in … [Read more...]
BREAKING: Texas Legislature tells inconvenient truth about HB 40
The Texas Legislature tells inconvenient truth! An alert about H.B. 40 came in my inbox yesterday. It told an inconvenient truth about the bill authored by the oil & gas industry and filed by Rep. Drew … [Read more...]
TEXAS FRACKING RAPE IN AUSTIN TODAY
I was told by someone that the imagery and text in this post might need a Trigger Warning. I didn't know what that was so I looked it up. Some psychologists are concerned with the use of trigger warnings as avoidance and others feel the trigger … [Read more...]
Fracking blowouts happen: will you be protected?
Right now in Austin the oil & gas industry is working through the Texas Legislature to strip away the decades old right of Texas cities to protect their citizens. These elected officials are completely out of touch with the reality of … [Read more...]
State Defines “Prudent and Reasonable” Fracking Operator
Monday, people from many areas of Texas converged in Austin to oppose H.B. 40 and H.B. 539. H.B. 40 is the Fracking Loophole Bill and H.B. 539 is the Punishment Tax Bill. H.B. 40, as written, will overturn almost a decade of my work in the … [Read more...]
Fracking Marching Orders to Save Your City
Monday Morning Fracking Marching Orders Fight back against the Texas Legislature's "nuclear" attack on Texas Cities. H.B. 40 and H.B. 539 The oil & gas industry has pulled the strings of their Austin puppets. They are using the Denton … [Read more...]
The fracking loophole in H.B. 40
There is a giant fracking loophole in H.B. 40! Representative Drew Darby's bill, H.B. 40, has a giant fracking loophole that allows industry to just say no to any restrictions on their operations in our neighborhoods. "Commercially reasonable" is … [Read more...]
ALERT: HB 40 and HB 539 bills stop city regulation of oil and gas
One Size Doesn't Fit All in Texas CLICK HERE: Tell the Energy Resources Committee to keep fracking control local HB 40 and HB 539 will stop city regulation of oil and gas. Texans who want to protect their homes and families have worked for … [Read more...]