We CAN get better regulation!
Here are some steps you can take to help protect your investment in your property and your environment. The data we collect from using these tools will provide the 
leverage we need to push the Recipe for Successful Drilling in Barnett Shale Communities and Towns.
Before the drilling starts:
1. Get baseline testing for air, soil and water. This will be critical evidence in the event you have contamination.
2. Get a property appraisal.
During the drilling process:
1. Be observant and pay close attention to what’s happening.
2. Take photos and video for documentation.
3. Call the TCEQ with a complaint each time you smell any odors.
- TCEQ Complaint Hotline: Open for business
- Follow up with an Open Records Request using the TECQ online form to obtain all test results and any video taken.
- Send your results to me so we can compile the data for leverage.
4. Get private testing if the emissions become a problem.
After the well is completed:
1. Be observant and pay close attention to what’s happening.
2. Take photos and video for documentation.
3. Call the TCEQ with a complaint each time you smell any odors.
- TCEQ Complaint Hotline: Open for business
- Follow up with an Open Records Request using the TECQ online form to obtain all test results and any video taken.
- Send your results to me so we can compile the data for leverage.
4. Follow up with private testing to confirm that your environment has been polluted
This system is working. Recently the TCEQ took an enforcement action against a Barnett Shale operator and more enforcement actions are planned. We are gathering documentation to use as leverage to get better regulation.
from: Tim Ruggiero
to: Wise County Alliance for Responsible Drilling
date: Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:34 PMI’m hearing that if enough people file enough complaints, that eventually the TCEQ can shut down a well. Even if this isn’t true, the complaints, accompanied by those odor logs are what justify the TCEQ to take enforcement action against the operator.
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Appreciate the information. We really need it. Alright Flower Mound, Lewisville, and Grapevine, heads-up!
Come on! We have to get this information out to our neighbors who do not have or do not know how to use the internet.
Door to door flyers, pass out flyers with petitions, info tubes in your front yards, yard signs, student rally, anything let's think of ways to help educate the public to be able to better safeguard their neighborhoods.
I will help! Any ideas let's hear it, spread the word!
COME ON IT IS A CHALLENGE. I will distribute more information than anyone and will buy dinner for anyone who proves they have beaten me. COME ON I AM EASY TO BEAT. IT COULD BE A FREE DINNER. WE JUST NEED TO DISTRIBUTE AS MUCH INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE REGARDING MEETING FOR CITY COUNCIL AND NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS. REPORT INFORMATION TO TCEQ AND OTHER AGENCY IN TEXAS.
GET INVOLVED YOU CAN DO IT, IF IT SOUNDS LIKE I AM BEGGING I AM AND THE BEGGING IS DIFFICULT FOR ME. SO HELP ANYWAY YOU KNOW HOW.
COME ON TRY AND PUT OUT MORE FLYERS THAN ME AND MY 3 TRUST CANINE COMPANIONS.
WE WILL SPANK YOU BUTTS OR AT LEAST GIVE IT A GOOD NIP IN THE BUD! LET US ALL GET INVOLVED! IT IS JUST LEG WORK.
I've got to make a flier to distribute but first I have to attend a meeting tomorrow night and another one Thursday night. And that means I need to get my thoughts together as to what I'm going to say. So, it might take a while to get that flier whipped out. =)
Right now, I'm going to bed.
ok