On Sunday, November 14th, 60 minutes will run a segment on the controvercial process of hydrolic fracturing (also known as fracking) for extracting natural gas. Much of the footage was shot around the Barnett Shale near and in the Dallas-Fort Worth area where residents are grappling with a plethora of potential problems from compressor stations emitting [...]
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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 [...]
Worried About Water
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agriculture, atascosa county, bastrop county, cinderella, clean water act, coal block, coal power, comanche peak, contaminated water, crop and livestock losses, drought, Exelon, federal disaster, fossil fuels, gerald north, Glen Rose, halliburton loophole, hay prices, hurrican katrina, hydraulic fracturing, ipcc, kerrville, lake buchanana, lake travis, matagorda bay, natural gas, Nuclear, safe drinking water act, Texas, texas a&m, Victoria, water, waxo, white stallion on July 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been thinking (and worrying) about water a lot lately. I suppose that the drought has brought all this concern along. Just a few months ago, folks were comparing this drought to the one that devastated Texas agriculture in the ’50s (when crop yields dropped by as much as 50%, all but one county in [...]
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