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VIDEO: Denton mineral owner testimony of fracking horrors

September 21, 2014 By TXsharon

This is testimony given at the Denton City Council hearing for the ban on hydraulic fracturing. Patricia Andrews is a 23-year resident of Denton, Texas, a landowner and a mineral owner. She signed a lease and experienced fracking on her property. … [Read more...]

Crude oil bomb trains have little oversight in Texas

September 13, 2014 By TXsharon

These trains are rolling right through your towns. Even Denton... The crude from shale formations is more explosive than regular crude. It might be all those highly flammable, explosive fracking chemical they pump into the formation. I'm betting that … [Read more...]

M 2.9 earthquake in North Texas

September 11, 2014 By TXsharon

There was a M 2.9 quake just north of Irving early this morning. There is no fracking near the epicenter but plenty just a little to the west. Event Page NBC5 news reports … [Read more...]

Water well goes bad in Booger County

September 9, 2014 By TXsharon

A landowner in Robertson County, which is also known as Booger County, woke up Sunday morning to find the water from his well cloudy. This followed an event on Saturday where one of the many nearby sour gas wells was venting very loudly. One … [Read more...]

Earthquake in Arlington coincides with water main break

September 8, 2014 By TXsharon

In the wee hours of Sunday morning, there was a M 2.4 earthquake in Arlington. There was also a water main break and sinkhole. You can see a video of the water main break on Facebook. Looking on the Texas Railroad Commission GIS map, I did not … [Read more...]

Range Resources hopes to kill free speech in Texas

September 5, 2014 By TXsharon

Range Resources' case against Lipsky is the "poster child for what SLAPP is." And what did Lipsky do to deserve the wrath of Range? He called the EPA. But, he only called the EPA after the Texas Railroad Commission failed to take action for months … [Read more...]

Conference speakers to highlight earthquakes and fracking

September 5, 2014 By TXsharon

I blogged earlier about the Earth, Wind and Fire Energy Summit coming to Dallas and you can read the entire brochure at that link. One of the featured speakers is Dr. Nicholas van der Elst who will talk about frackquakes. A featured Sunday … [Read more...]

Oil and gas at blowout in Tyler, Texas flows into stream

September 3, 2014 By TXsharon

This is a huge mess. Workers are wading in almost knee deep gunk that has breached the earthen berms built in an effort to contain it. The gunk is flowing into a stream and will take about a year to clean up. Why do they let the industry frack … [Read more...]