City officials sold you out for the tidy sum of $34 million.XTO and another drilling company, Trinity East Energy, agreed in 2008 to pay for the rights to drill for natural gas on several pieces of city-owned land.Here's the link … [Read more...]
Standards for pipeline blow-downs and purges needed
In the next five years, 125 new gas-fired power plants will be built throughout the country so Congress must pass standards for pipeline blow-downs and purges to prevent explosions like the one at the Kleen Energy power plant last February that left … [Read more...]
How the oil and gas industry is exactly like the tobacco industry
How the oil and gas industry is exactly like the tobacco industry and I mean EXACTLY. Did you ever see Thank You for Smoking? Plot Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) is the Vice President of and the chief spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies, … [Read more...]
Ellie the weenie dog talks about natural gas
It's methane and contributes to our poor air quality. … [Read more...]
DISH water in the news
The Smiths in DISH, Texas are still without water. A press release came out about it today. Press Release: Gas Drilling Leaves DISH, TX Residents Without Clean Water And the FW Weekly mentioned it again. I wonder if any local media is … [Read more...]
TPA Round-up
The Texas Progressive Alliance is fired up and ready to go with its post-convention blog roundup.Neil at Texas Liberal offered up four reasons Bill White will beat Rick Perry and, in so doing, become the next Governor of Texas.John at Bay Area … [Read more...]
EPA: RAM Energy Resources, Inc. Ordered to Stop Discharging drilling waste into Long Creek
EPA Orders RAM Energy Resources, Inc. to Stop Discharging (Dallas, Texas – June 28, 2010) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a cease and desist administrative order to RAM Energy Resources, Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, for … [Read more...]
Stanford professor explains Barnett Shale air pollution and health risks
From the comments:MYtoeSPACEpillow has left a new comment on your post "I hear Arlington Barnett Shale gas is dry these da...":I asked Mark Z. Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University what was coming out of … [Read more...]
Evangelicals: Go Green With God
An Evangelical Crusade To Go Green With Godby NPR StaffSimply trusting corporations to go about their business without polluting the water streams and without destroying ecosystems is really a naïve and utopian view of human nature. It's not a … [Read more...]
Stop watching Fox News! The Jones Act lies busted.
People, people, people! You MUST stop watching Fox News unless you do so purely to point and laugh. It's NOT REAL NEWS and that has been proven repeatedly.Of all the goofy comments that people have submitted to this blog, the comments on the BP spill … [Read more...]
Barnett Shale news
Fort Worth residents had a HUGE victory this week when the Ethics Review Committee decided it is a violation of ethics to allow industry representatives on the Air Quality Study Committee. Well, duh. That's such a no-brainer. I hope other cities and … [Read more...]
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