Updated: Frackademia to study North Texas fracking earthquakes

November 21, 2013

Frackademic: noun – An academic aligned with frackers to lend credibility to fracking. Frackademia: verb – To act or work as such a person to provide credibility to frackers: “we’ve aligned with Univ. of Buffalo. We’ve done a variety of other activities where we’ve gotten the academics to sponsor programs and bring in people for [...]

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Surreal Denton City Council meeting

November 20, 2013

I am still trying to process what I saw and heard last night at Denton’s City Council meeting (minutes and video). The gory details are summed up in the Denton Record Chronicle. Fracking dispute erupts at City Hall Residents take to podium again to call for end to gas drilling By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe 19 November [...]

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Three more fracking earthquakes in North Texas

November 19, 2013

A 2.5M see Event Page and A 2.8M see Event Page UPDATE: And another one–a big one! 3.6 M. Event Page. I will provide a link later. Event Page. If you felt this quake, please go to the event page and report it. When they don’t get any reports, that allows them to say it was not [...]

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ACT NOW! Protect Drinking Water and Public Land More not Less!

November 19, 2013

  They’re at it again – at the behest of their friends in the Oil and Gas Industry, the U.S. House of Representatives will consider several bills related to oil and gas activity. Your Representative need to hear from you now — they’re voting on these bills this week. Please urge them to vote no [...]

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Updated with audio: Fracking executive confirms: Homeland Security thinks fracktivists are terrorists

November 15, 2013

UPDATE: AUDIO now available According to comments made by Mark Grawe, Chief Operating Officer at EagleRidge Energy (EagleRidge), Denton, Texas residents who object to his company’s reckless operations way too close to their homes, schools and parks are terrorists worthy of inclusion on the Department of Homeland Security’s watch list. Wednesday night Grawe attended a [...]

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Natural gas pipeline explosion near Milford, Texas

November 14, 2013

This is a breaking story so there is not yet a lot of information. I will update as the story develops. A pipeline exploded in Ellis County TX. Homes and schools have been evacuated. Fire out of control. WFAA NEWS VIDEO CBS NEWS VIDEO   It looks like some kind of natural gas facility or drilling [...]

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Update: IR Video: EagleRidge flowback vapors at UNT Apogee Athletic Stadium

November 13, 2013

This video was taken by Calvin Tillman of ShaleTest using a FLIR GasFindIR HSX camera. This camera makes visible the volatile organic compounds (VOC) that are invisible to the naked eye. The site is operated by EagleRidge Operating LLC and is across the street from the University of North Texas new Apogee Athletic Stadium. There are [...]

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Scientist says Range Resources’ Parker County water tests “bogus”

November 6, 2013

Range has been in the news lately but you might have missed some of it. On Monday: A story by Mike Soraghan, E&E reporter,Landowners’ rep says inspectors ignoring dangerous methane readings, says that the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) failed “to report dangerous levels of methane at contaminated water wells.” (Failed is a word that attaches [...]

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Updated: Fracking earthquake rocks wealthy homes in North Texas

November 6, 2013

This morning I had email. We had a 2.6 earthquake in Azle Tx on Eagle Mountain Lake where they are Fracking less than 2 blocks away. They say you shouldn’t feel it but my bed jerked and hit the wall and I was awake and my spouse awoke from his sleep. The neighbors felt it [...]

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Tap dancing around fracking earthquakes

November 4, 2013

“Any time you are putting material into the ground, particularly under pressure, you are going to have the potential to break rock,” says Robert Balch, a geophysicist at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro. Source The point of fracking is to break rock. Oops! We’ve known since the 1960s that injecting fluids [...]

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Videos show why Denton air as bad as Houston’s

November 4, 2013

Denton and Houston have the worst air in the state of Texas according to this year’s average ozone readings. Sperlings says Denton’s air ranks a 1.8 out of 100 with 100 being the best air. Bad air is tied to all kinds of health concerns (see below) and ozone is now considered a human carcinogen. Local [...]

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