According to a story in the New York Times, landowners across the country have signed millions of leases allowing companies to drill for oil and natural gas on their land, but some of these landowners — often in rural areas, and lured by the promise of quick payouts — are finding out too late what [...]
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What You Need to Know About the Perils in Gas Well Leases
Posted in Consumers, tagged fracking, Oil and Gas Leases on December 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Texas Senator Troy Fraser focuses on the energy industry’s water use
Posted in Coal Plants, Nuclear Plants, Water, tagged drought, Energy, fracking, Texas, water on November 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
According to the Texas Energy Report, Senate Natural Resources Committee Chairman Troy Fraser, called the energy industry a bit too “thirsty” during a record one-year drought, and warned the oil and gas companies to ramp up the recycling of water consumed during hydraulic fracturing. Currently much of the chemical-laced water and sand that Texas companies blast [...]
DOE weighing in on the fracking debate
Posted in Air Quality, tagged clean air act, fracking, united states department of energy, United States Environmental Protection Agency on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
US Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chu may play a role in sorting out the entangled mess of misinformation and spin about the environmental impacts of gas drilling. U.S. gas producers are looking to ramp up industrialization in rural areas outside of some of the nation’s largest cities. Secretary Chu has indicated that the White [...]
Public Citizen joins Fracking Activists in press conference
Posted in Air Quality, natural gas, TCEQ, tagged fracking on April 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Public Citizen was lucky enough to have been invited to the release of the new study Flowback: How Natural Gas Drilling in Texas Threatens Public Health and Safety. We had to split the press conference into three different pieces to get them uploaded, but here we get started with Sharon Wilson and State Rep. Lon [...]
Corporate welfare for oil and gas or fully funded schools?
Posted in Air Quality, natural gas, tagged fracking, north texas, Tax break on April 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Texas oil and gas officials will plead with House Appropriations Committee members next week that the industry needs its $1.2 billion annual tax break, more than children need fully funded schools or the elderly need nursing homes to stay open. The committee will take testimony on April 14 from industry representatives and others on the controversial [...]
March 29th – Bill of the day!
Posted in Air Quality, tagged fracking, HB 3110 on March 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
HB 3110 – Bad by Craddick – Relating to air permitting requirements for certain oil and gas facilities.
Eminent Domain: Coming to your town soon?
Posted in Air Quality, Good Government, natural gas, tagged Eminent Domain, fracking, keystone xl, Private property, Tar Sands, Texas, texas supreme court on February 27, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The Texas Supreme Court, the state’s highest civil court, will hear a controversial case over whether a company that plans to build pipeline to carry carbon dioxide and natural gas from Louisiana to site south of Houston qualifies as a “common carrier,” giving it the power of eminent domain. That means if they want to [...]
SB772 would require “tracer” compound in fracking fluids
Posted in Air Quality, tagged fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Range Resources, Texas, United States Environmental Protection Agency, wendy davis on February 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) filed Senate Bill 772, which, if passed, would require companies using hydraulic fracturing to mine natural gas in Texas to include a unique tracer compound enabling regulators to determine which party is or is not responsible in the event that the fluids find their way into drinking water supplies. Sen. [...]
Flammable water in homes west of Fort Worth!
Posted in Toxics, tagged Benezene, fort worth, fracking, methane, natural gas, United States Environmental Protection Agency on December 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ordering a natural gas company in Fort Worth to take immediate action to protect people living near one of its drilling operations who have complained about flammable drinking water coming out of their home faucets. Read some of our earlier blogs about the process that is suspected of causing these [...]
EPA issues subpoena after Halliburton refuses to disclose fracking details
Posted in Air Quality, TCEQ, Toxics, tagged dfw, fracking, Halliburton, hydraulic fracturing, United States Environmental Protection Agency on November 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The EPA said it issued the subpoena after Texas-based Halliburton refused to voluntarily disclose the a description of the chemical components used in a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, a drilling practice that has been at the center of a controversy in the DFW area. Halliburton was the only one of nine major energy companies [...]
GasLand: A Must Watch Documentary
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, natural gas, Renewables, solar, tagged air pollution, Air Quality, documentary, drinking water, faucet on fire, fracking, gasland, HBO, HBO Documentaries, josh fox, Larry King, Larry King Live, natural gas drilling, oil and gas wells, pipe explosion, rig explosion, T. Boone Pickens, water, water on fire, Water Pollution, Water Quality on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A few days ago, Larry King interviewed T. Boone Pickens and if you were watching it, you heard him condemn the spill and the US dependence on oil then he raved about natural gas and how safe it is to drill for it. Pickens is not the first. Many have claimed that natural gas is [...]
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