Fracking News
Put on surprised face: Fracking earthquakes are caused by oil & gas fluid injection and oil & gas fluid extraction. SMU confirms fracking waste likely caused quakes that damaged Azle homes & businesses Statement of Earthworks organizer … [Read more...]
We have known since 1960 that injection can cause earthquakes. Fracking creates massive amounts of waste that requires injection into disposal wells permitted by the state. HB 40 strips disposal well control from cities and overturns bans. Even … [Read more...]
Representative Phil King wrote a letter to the FW Weekly in response to their article "Home Rule Under Fire." I'm pretty sure he was talking about me in his letter. Among all the misrepresentations about fracking he made some about me. Phil King … [Read more...]
Proving that everything IS bigger in Texas, even the government, the Fracking Nanny State Bill, HB 40, has passed the House in a crushing and shameful vote of 122 Yeas, 18 Nays. Earthworks Statement: Today’s passage of CSHB40 makes clear that, … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
A guest editorial with thoughts on the corporate takeover in Texas. by Eagle Ford Ellie with original emphasis. (Ed Ireland, BSEEC, says there just isn't any opposition in the Eagle Ford Shale. Wrong again, Ed.) Thanks to Earthworks and Sharon … [Read more...]
Mismanaged fracking waste is public health risk "...our analysis shows that states aren’t keeping track of this waste or disposing of it properly. States must take realistic, concrete steps to better protect the public.” ~Nadia Steinzor, … [Read more...]
Kansas finds "immediate danger" to public from fracking earthquakes. It is time for other states to step up and protect the public from fracking earthquakes. But Texas lawmakers take a giant leap backward with HB 40. As reported by Mike … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]