Nine Texas Issues to Watch in '09 LegislatureNatural gas regulation7. With Barnett Shale natural gas drilling still going hot and heavy in North Texas, and more gas pipelines being built, expect a flurry of bills related to gas drilling, production … [Read more...]
Citizen Suit Guide: Valuable Tool to Fight Oil and Gas Polluters
From Rancho Los Malulos:Here's a sample of how Citizen Suits are being used across the country. The big environmental laws -- they all have citizen suit provisions. I think it's going to be a very valuable tool for people to get the Oil Companies to … [Read more...]
More Proof: Big Oil = Big Tobacco
Update: Gas Found in Private Water Wells
This latest news seems to prove what I wrote in my earlier post: Natural Gas Found in Private Water Wells: How the oil and gas industry is exactly like the tobacco industry.Water Problems in Susquehanna CountyBy Kurt AaronSome people in Susquehanna … [Read more...]
Picture: Cow Drinks Toxic Drilling Waste. People Eat Cow…
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...]
Voices from the Gas Fields
For residents of a western valley, methane gas development has meant uncertainly, doubt, and dragging fearWow! This will break your heart. … [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...]
Is Fort Worth Smoking Frack?
Hydraulic Fracturing pictureGo read about it and see the other pictures at Durango Texas. … [Read more...]
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