Eagle Ford Shale blowout in Wilson County

May 9, 2013

I can’t keep up with all the bad news from the Eagle Ford Shale. Gas well issues prompt evacuation near Kosciusko Johnny De La Zerda Jr. Wilson County News May 8, 2013 The internal pressure of a Hunt Oil Co well outside of Kosciusko is past critical levels. As of 7:15 p.m., the evacuation order [...]

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Oilfield jobs: Workers suffer “horrific deaths”

May 9, 2013

Reporters have a tough job learning how many oilfield workers have died in the Eagle Ford Shale boom. How many workers have died in the Eagle Ford Shale? Posted on 05/08/2013 by John Tedesco When we checked out the industry’s safety record in February, we found 11 employees who had suffered horrific deaths at drilling [...]

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Landowners suffering health impacts in Eagle Ford Shale just want out

May 9, 2013

Myra and Mike just want out! I’ve been working with the Cerny family for about 18 months now helping them learn who to call and when, collecting and documenting evidence of harm. Their exposure to toxics from shale oil and gas development is constant. Excellent reporting by Joe Conger / KENS 5 VIDEO: ‘We want out [...]

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A Public Service Announcement from the Fracking Industry

May 6, 2013

Here is a message about the fracking controversy from the oil & gas institute. Oh wait!  

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UPDATE: Earthquakes back in West Texas near Snyder

May 6, 2013

I drove to desolate, hideous, Midland, Texas recently for the first time in 20+ years. If you want to motivate people to switch to clean energy and get off fossil fuels, send them to Midland. The road to Midland goes past (not through) Snyder, Texas and dozens of injection wells conveniently located right on the [...]

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Irony at TX Lege as RRC bill passes Senate

May 3, 2013

Irony Alert:  Senator Craig Estes tried to amend SB 212 to strip out one of the ethics provisions. Estes was highlighted in the Texas Observer article “Lifestyles of the Corrupt and Elected.” The bill will change the RRC name to Texas Energy Resources Commission. I rather liked the other suggestion Texas Department of Oil and Gas [...]

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Huge amounts of ammonium nitrate used for mining stored in the Barnett Shale.

May 3, 2013

Ammonium nitrate is used in mining. Mining = fracking. Storage of ammonium nitrate was blamed for the tragic explosion in West, Texas. Wise County seems to be the prize winner in the ammonium nitrate storage category for the Barnett Shale area. Score to the DRC reporting! Denton Record Chronicle Facilities must disclose certain amounts of materials [...]

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TCEQ report of Eagleridge blowout sanitized, City of Denton has eMail blowout with toxic leak

May 3, 2013

UPDATE: Also see “Gas leak now called blowout” The Department of Sanitation: The initial emissions report from TCEQ regarding the Eagleridge blowout in Denton has been sanitized. Thankfully Cathy McMullen copied the original report from the TCEQ website and posted it in a comment. I turned Cathy’s comment into a PDF. Here is the nutshell of [...]

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The real story about methane and the EPA estimates

May 2, 2013

I might have mentioned the recent news that the EPA reduced their estimates of methane emissions but now I have even more and better information. This is the information that needs to be reported. First, the bottom line: Methane levels are way too high–3x normal. (1) What we know for a fact is that methane concentrations in [...]

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UPDATE: How to judge fracking success

May 1, 2013

Upstream, The International Oil & Gas Newspaper, did a short profile of me for their February 22 issue, Vol 18, week 8. It was written by Noah Brenner who reminds me of an old-time journalist–real reporter not a stenographer–who strives to put aside any personal bias and report with fairness and accuracy. For the article, [...]

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Join the Frack Attack People’s Forum in D.C.!

May 1, 2013

Come to our nation’s capital to tell your fracking story! The Stop the Frack Attack Network is calling on fracktivists everywhere to come to our nation’s capital to tell the real story about oil and gas drilling! Despite the dirty and dangerous drilling and fracking occurring across the United States, many of our politicians continue [...]

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