I posted recently about Governor Rick Perry's pick for the top environmental position in Texas:Global Warmng Denier Appointed State's Top Environmental OfficialGovernor Rick Perry of Texas Pokes The Eye of the Federal EPA and Appoints a Climate … [Read more...]
Barnett Shale: In Your Backyard
Coming Soon to a backyard near you YOUR backyard. How would you like to wake up one day and see a drilling rig in your backyard? Oh, and you don't own any mineral rights, only the surface.This picture of a drilling rig on an Aruba Petroleum … [Read more...]
TPA Round-up
The Texas Progressive Alliance hopes everyone has a Happy Labor Day, and notes that it won't be any work at all to read this week's roundup of blog highlights. ExxonMobil! Free Mrs. Burns!Like TXsharon, Elizabeth Burns is a reluctant activist forced … [Read more...]
"Clean-burning" Natural Gas = Ozone Forming Methane
Another 200 Foot Set Back Picture
Picture this: You buy a place in the country with a few acres where your kids can roam, raise animals and commune with nature. Or you buy a place in town where you can raise your family surrounded by a community with many options. You work hard, … [Read more...]
Midland Hexavalent Chromium Contamination: Property Values
How much would you pay for a home in the Cottonflats neighborhood in Midland, Texas?Over 40 water wells in Cottonflats are contaminated with hexavalent chromium. Affected owners who protested their property values at the Midland Central Appraisal … [Read more...]
Hydraulic Fracturing: Chesapeake Energy’s Fracking Fire
Peter Gorman who wrote The Big Takeover lives not far from where Chesapeake Energy's fracking fire burned up 8 tractor trailer rigs and all kinds of other stuff. He's been over there a couple of times but the armed guard won't even let reporters in. … [Read more...]
Jeff Weems for Texas Railroad Commissioner
NICE website! Well worth the wait.From Meet Jeff Weems:Following in this tradition of his father and grandfathers, Jeff began working for energy service companies at every opportunity while in high school and college, which allowed him to pay for his … [Read more...]
Salt Water From Drilling Operations Leaks In Brazos
Environmental lip serviceLove the title! The article jumps right in by lambasting the TCEQ and the TRC for their "lip service" to ongoing environmental issues in the Breckenridge area.Salt water from drilling operations and oil might have been … [Read more...]
BLM Investigating Spill. Could This Be Frack Fluid?
Release Date: 09/03/09 Contacts: Erin Curtis, 970-244-3097 Cell 970-210-2126 BLM Investigating Chemical Spill in Cochetopa CreekGunnison, Colo. – The Bureau of Land Management is monitoring efforts to clean up Cochetopa Creek after a … [Read more...]
Texas Earthquakes: Shake, Rattle and Roll with The Texas Observer
Apparently we weren't keeping count very well because we've had 21 earthquakes since October according to this Texas Observer article about the drilling induced earthquakes in Texas.When asked if he was familiar with the New York Times article about … [Read more...]
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